Cleveland v. Chamberlain
Supreme Court of the United States
This was ah appeal by the defendant from the District Court of the United States for the district of Wisconsin. Newcombe Cleveland, of Illinois, brought his bill in equity in the District Court against the La Crosse and Milwaukie.
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This was ah appeal by the defendant from the District Court of the United States for the district of Wisconsin. Newcombe Cleveland, of Illinois, brought his bill in equity in the District Court against the La Crosse and Milwaukie. Railroad Company, Byron Kilbourn, Moses Kneeland, James'Lúddington,- D. C. Ereeman, Charles D. Nash, of Wisconsin, and Selah Chamberlain, of Ohio, complaining that he had recovered a judgment against the railroad company for $112,271 76, besides costs, which remains unsatisfied, and on which the complainant issued his execution and -levied upon the road of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
This appeal must be dismissed. Selah Chamberlain is, in fact, both appellant and appellee. By the intervention of a friend he has purchased the debt demanded by Cleveland in his bill, and now carries on a pretended controversy by counsel, chosen and paid by himself, and on a record selected by them, for the evident purpose of obtaining a decision injurious to the rights and interests of third parties.
There is no material difference between this cáse and that of Lord vs. Veazie, (8 How., 254,) when the whole proceeding was justly rebuked by the. court as “in contempt of the court, and highly…
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