PONZI v. FESSENDEN

No. 631.

258 U.S. 254 (1922)

PONZI v. FESSENDEN ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 27, 1922.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William H. Lewis for Ponzi.

Mr. J. Weston Allen, Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts, with whom Mr. Edwin H. Abbot, Jr., was on the brief, for Fessenden et al.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. W. Marvin Smith, by leave of court, filed a brief on behalf of the United States, as amici curiae.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

We live in the jurisdiction of two sovereignties, each having its own system of courts to declare and enforce its laws in common territory. It would be impossible for such courts to fulfil their respective functions without embarrassing conflict unless rules were adopted by them to avoid it. The people for whose benefit these two...

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