Ex Parte Wisner
Supreme Court of the United States
PETITIONS FOR WRITS OF MANDAMUS AND OF PROHIBITION. Abram C. Wisner, a citizen of the State of Michigan, commenced an action at law, on February 17, a. d. 1906, in the Circuit Court in and for the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, against John D. Beardsley, a citizen of the State of Louisiana, by filing a petition, together with an affidavit, on which that court issued a writ of attachment, in the usual form, directed to the sheriff of St. Louis.
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PETITIONS FOR WRITS OF MANDAMUS AND OF PROHIBITION. Abram C. Wisner, a citizen of the State of Michigan, commenced an action at law, on February 17, a. d. 1906, in the Circuit Court in and for the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, against John D. Beardsley, a citizen of the State of Louisiana, by filing a petition, together with an affidavit, on which that court issued a writ of attachment, in the usual form, directed to the sheriff of St. Louis. The sheriff returned no property found, but that he had garnisheed the Mississippi Valley Trust Company, a corporation of Missouri, and also…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
By Article III of the Constitution the judicial power of the United States was “vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”
• And the judicial power wa,s extended “to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to'controversies -to which the United States shall be a. party; to…
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