Mathews v. McStea

Supreme Court of the United States
Mathews v. McStea, 87 U.S. 646 (1874)

Mathews v. McStea

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Justice MILLER

delivered the opinion of the court.

We are of opinion that the only question made and decided in this case against plaintiff in error was the sufficiency of the acts of the President to inaugurate a war which would render invalid this contract, and that this is one of the questions embraced by the act of February 5th, 1867. .

The motion to dismiss is, therefore,

Overruled.

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The decision of a State court-passing upon the effect produced by the act of the executive on a given contract in inaugurating the late civil war in the United States, is reviewable here by writ of error under the second section of the act of Gth February', 1807, to amend the Judiciary Act; ¡¡ 709 of the Revised Statutes of this United States.