In Re Cooper
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. The court stated the case as follows: This is an application for a writ of prohibition to the District Court of the United States for the District of Alaska, to restrain the enforcement of a sentence of forfeiture and condemnation entered in that court, September 19, 1887, on a libel filed by the United States against the schooner W. P. Sayward, upon the ground that that court was without jurisdiction in the premises.
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ORIGINAL. The court stated the case as follows: This is an application for a writ of prohibition to the District Court of the United States for the District of Alaska, to restrain the enforcement of a sentence of forfeiture and condemnation entered in that court, September 19, 1887, on a libel filed by the United States against the schooner W. P. Sayward, upon the ground that that court was without jurisdiction in the premises. The petitioner, Cooper, is the owner of the vessel, and with his petition a suggestion was presented by Sir John Thompson, K. C. M. G-., Her Britannic Majesty’s…
1Opinion of the Court
Mn. Chief Justice Fullee
delivered the opinion of the court. . .
By section one of the act of Congress of May 17, 1884, entitled “ An act providing a civil government for Alaska,” (23 Stat. 24, c. 53,) it is provided “ that the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and known as Alaska, shall constitute a civil and judicial district, the government of which shall be organized and administered as hereinafter provided. The temporary seat of government, of said district is-hereby established at Sitka.”
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