Adoue v. Strahan’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. ““Counsel for the plaintiffs insist that the case of Rich v. Braxton, 158 U. S. 405 , 15 Sup. Ct. 1006 , 30 L. Ed. 1022 , is authority in support of the bill. The court thinks not. In that case the precise question was not presented at all. Counsel also cite Holland v. Challen, 110 U. S. 15 , 26, 3 Sup. Ct. 495 , 28 L. Ed. 52 , to the effect that United States courts of equity will respect state statutes enlarging equitable remedies. Unquestionably that is true, but it is subject to the limitation that rights created by state statutes will not be administered if they conflict with the distinction strictly observed in said courts between law and equity, or if they contravene section 723 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 583), which provides that suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the ■ United States, where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law, or if they violate the constitutional right of parties, in actions at law, of a trial by jury.””

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