ABLEMAN v. BOOTH

No. 35.

59 U.S. 479 (1855)

18 How. 479

STEPHEN V.R. ABLEMAN, PLFF. IN ER., v. SHERMAN M. BOOTH.

Supreme Court of United States.


Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon looking into the transcript in this case, we find that the questions of constitutional law which it involves arose in a preliminary proceeding in the case between the same parties, of which we have just spoken. In that case, the whole subject was disposed of in the state court, and the principal question in it is precisely the same with that which is presented in this, which the attorney-general proposes...

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