Ames v. Colorado Cent. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Colorado
In equity. Bill to foreclose a mortgage. A very full history of this case is given in connection with the opinion of the circuit judge on the motion to docket under the act of June 26, 1876, which was announced at this term. 4 Dill. 251, [Ames v. Colorado Cent.
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In equity. Bill to foreclose a mortgage. A very full history of this case is given in connection with the opinion of the circuit judge on the motion to docket under the act of June 26, 1876, which was announced at this term. 4 Dill. 251, [Ames v. Colorado Cent. R. Co., Case No. 324.] For convenience, it may be well to state the following again: The bill was filed in the district court of Boulder county, June 21, 1876; issue was joined July 24, 1876; the territory of Colorado became a state by proclamation of the president, August 1, 1876, and the last order made at the July term of the…
1Opinion of the Court
HALLET, District Judge.
This suit was brought in the district court of Boulder county, under the late territorial government, and the question here presented is. whether it may be removed into this court under the act of congress of March 3, 1875. In terms, that act extends to cases then pending or thereafter to be brougb.t in any state court. This suit was not then pending in any court, nor was it afterwards brought in a si ate court, although it came into such a court by operation of law on the admission of the state, sometime after it was begun.
It was ingeniously urged in the argument at…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Ames v. Colorado Cent. R.District Court, D. Colorado · 1876
- Gaffney v. GilletteU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Colorado · 1878
- Palmer v. CowdreySupreme Court of Colorado · 1873
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