Jacob Strader v. Christopher Graham

Supreme Court of the United States

December Term, 1855

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1855-12

Relies on Jacob Strader James Gorman and John Armstrong v. Christopher Graham · In the Matter of the United States v. Sherman M. Booth. Stephen v. R. Ableman, in Error v. Sherman M. Booth

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Petition denied / appeal dismissed · 9–0 · Decided 1855-12

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Cited by 19 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1923

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THIS case was dismissed for want of jurisdiction, at December term, 1850, 10 How. 82.

¶2

At the present term, Mr. Crittenden, of counsel for the defendant in error, moved the court to amend the judgment entered in this cause at the December term, 1950, and to give a judgment for the costs in this court in favor of his client. Whereupon it is now here considered by the court that this court cannot give a judgment for costs in a case dismissed for want of jurisdiction, and it appearing to this court that this cause has been dismissed for want of jurisdiction, it is thereupon now here ordered by the court that the said motion be and the same is hereby overruled.