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SPRINGVILLE v. THOMAS

Nos. 103, 153, 199.

166 U.S. 707 (1897)

SPRINGVILLE v. THOMAS. SALT LAKE CITY BREWING COMPANY v. FRED. W. WOLF COMPANY. SALT LAKE CITY v. TUCKER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Submitted January 14, 1897.

Submitted January 29, 1897.

Decided April 26, 1897.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.L. Rawlins for plaintiff in error in No. 103.

Mr. Parley L. Williams for defendants in error in No. 103.

Mr. William C. Hall for plaintiff in error in No. 153.

Mr. Parley L. Williams, Mr. Frank Pierce and Mr. Frank H. Scott for defendant in error in No. 153.

Mr. William McKay and Mr. D.B. Hempstead for plaintiff in error in No. 199.

Mr. William T.S. Curtis for defendants in error in No. 199.

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

In these three cases judgments were entered on verdicts returned by less than the whole number of jurors, by which they were tried. It has been decided by this court that the territorial act of March 10, 1892, permitting this to be done, Laws Utah, 1892, p. 46, was invalid, because in contravention of the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution and the act of Congress...

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