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154 U.S. 610

22 L. Ed. 420

Docket No. 109.

Basse v. Brownsville

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued December 18, 1874.

Decided January 11, 1875.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1875-01-11

<p>ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS.</p>

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““This writ of error is dismissed for the want of jurisdiction. In McKinney v. Saviego, 18 How. [235], 240 [ 15 L.Ed. 365 ], it was decided that the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo had no relation to property included within the state of Texas. * * *””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Amaya v. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1875-01-11

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1946

3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS.

¶2The treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo had no relation to property within the State of Texas.

¶3Mr. Edgar Ketchum, Mr. James ¡i. Cox and Mr. C. Robinson J'or plaintiff in error.

¶4Mr. Thomas J. Durant and Mr. Charles W. Honor for defendant in error.

¶5Mr. Chief Justice Waite

¶6delivered the opinion of the court.

¶7This writ of error is dismissed for the want of jurisdiction. In McKinney v. Saviego, 18 How. 240, it was decided that the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo had no relation to property included within the State of Texas. The record does not show that any question was made in the court below or decided, as to the effect of the act of 7th February, 1853, upon the plaintiff’s title. So far as anything does appear, the case was disposed ol' without reaching that question. Dismissed.

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