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12 F. Cas. 56

Herron v. Runkle

U.S. District Court

Decided April 11, 1866

U.S. District Court · decided 1866-04-11

This was a bill praying for injunction to restrain the defendant, who was superintendent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, from enforcing, against the personal estate of the plaintiff’s testator, a judgment rendered by the defendant against plaintiff’s testator, a white citizen, in favor of a freedman.

Decided 1866-04-11

TRIGG, District Judge,

¶1held that the act of March 3, 1865, § 1 [13 Stat. 507], gave the Freedmen’s Bureau no jurisdiction to determine such suits, and that the enforcement of the judgment woiild be a trespass, but that the court could not enjoin against the commission of such trespass, and that the parties must be left to their remedies at law.

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