Smith v. Rines
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
This was an action of trespass on the case, in the nature of a conspiracy to defraud, and for actually defrauding the plaintiff, James Smith, in the purchase of certain lands, situate in Maine.
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This was an action of trespass on the case, in the nature of a conspiracy to defraud, and for actually defrauding the plaintiff, James Smith, in the purchase of certain lands, situate in Maine. The damages were laid at $63.000. The action was originally brought in the court of common pleas of the county ■of Worcester, in the state of Massachusetts; returnable to the last March term of that ■court, by James Smith, citizen of Massachusetts, against four persons, specially named ■in the writ, as inhabitants of the county of Worcester (upon whom the process was duly served); against Stover Bines,…
1Opinion of the Court
STOBT, Circuit Justice.
The motion has been very ably and elaborately discussed at the bar; and I should have heard the further argument which was proposed to be *642made in support of It, if, upon hearing all, that has been so ingeniously said on the other side, 1 could bring my mind to doubt, that the motion ought to be granted. The 12th section of the judiciary act of 1789, c. 20, provides: “That if a suit be commenced in any state court against an alien, or by a citizen of a state, in which the suit is brought, against a citizen of another state, and the matter in dispute exceeds the sum or…
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