STANLEY v. SCHWALBY

No. 1092.

147 U.S. 508 (1893)

STANLEY v. SCHWALBY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 6, 1893.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Maury for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. A.H. Garland for defendants in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

In The Siren, 7 Wall. 152, 154, Mr. Justice Field, who spoke for the court, in adverting to the familiar rule of the common law that the sovereign cannot be sued in his own courts without his consent, and the ground upon which the rule rested, said: "This doctrine of the common law is equally applicable to the supreme...

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