The Nonesuch

Supreme Court of the United States
The Nonesuch, 76 U.S. 504 (1870)
19 L. Ed. 663; 9 Wall. 504; 1869 U.S. LEXIS 989

The Nonesuch

Opinion

The CHEEP JUSTICE

delivered the opinion of the court

This court cannot acquire jurisdiction of a cause pending in a Circuit Court by transfer.. This was determined at the last term in the case of The Alicia * In that case the record had not been filed, and a motion was made to docket and dismiss. That motion was denied, on the ground that the court could not take jurisdiction. Iu this case the record has been filed, and the cause has been docketed here. The order, therefore, must be that the cause be

Dismissed eor want oe jurisdiction.

*

7 Wallace, 572.

Reference

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Status
Published
Syllabus
The court has no jurisdiction of a cause transferred here from the Circuit Court by consent of parties. The Alicia (7 Wallace, 672) affirmed.