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DUROUSSEAU ET AL. v. THE U.S.

10 U.S. 307 (1810)

6 Cranch 307

DUROUSSEAU AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 15, 1810.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney, Attorney-General, and Janes, for the United States.

E. Livingston, contra.

P.B. Key, E. Livingston, C. Lee, and R.G. Harper, for the plaintiffs in error.

Jones, contra.

MARSHALL, Ch. J. delivered the opinion of the court, upon the question of jurisdiction, as follows:

This is the first of several writs of error to sundry judgments rendered by the court of the United States for the territory of Orleans.

The attorney-general having moved to dismiss them, because no writ of error lies from this court to that in any case, or, if in any case, not in such a case as this; the jurisdiction...

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