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Supreme Court of the United States

January 23, 1888.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1888-01-23

ORIGINAL. moved the court for leave to file a petition, for a writ of mandamus to •the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia-to compel the allowance of an appeal in accordance with the prayer of the petitioners; whereupon, the Chief Justice announced that an application had been made to him for the allowance of an appeal in the cause, which application he now refers to the court for its consideration, and directed that counsel for the moving parties file a brief in…

Cited by 2 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1888

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Petition denied / appeal dismissed · 8–0 · Decided 1888-01-23

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R. H. Steele, for petitioner.

[Statement of Case from pages 370-373 intentionally omitted]

WAITE, C. J.

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This motion is denied. The amount in dispute is less than $5,000, and we cannot discover that the decree involves the decision of any such federal question as will authorize an appeal to this court under section 2 of the act of March 3, 1885, (23 St. 443, c. 355.) An injunction restraining a person from prosecuting an ordinary suit in replevin in a court established under the authority of the United States does not necessarily involve a question of 'the validity of a treaty or statute of or an authority exercised under the United States.'