BETHELL v. DEMARET


77 U.S. 537 (1870)

10 Wall. 537

BETHELL v. DEMARET.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.A. Campbell now moved to dismiss the writ for want of jurisdiction.

Mr. Miles Taylor, in support of the writ:


Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.

There was no Federal question presented to the court below by the plaintiff in error, so far as appears from the record. There is no statute of a State in question here.

But it is insisted that there was an authority under the State of Louisiana exercised in the case drawn in question, and which was repugnant to the Constitution, and the decision in favor of its...

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