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Railroad Company v. Grant U.S. 398 (1879)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0442 and id is 1 raw text is: RAILROAD Co. v. GRANT. Hoffman v. City of Quincy, 4 Wall. 535; Benbow v. Iowa City, 7 id. 318; Supervisors v. Rogers, id. 175; The Supervisors v. .Durant, 9 id. 415; County of Cass v. Johnston, 95 U. S. 360. The judgment of the court below must, therefore, be reversed, and the cause remanded with directions to issue the writ as prayed in the petition of the relator; and it is So ordered. Non.- Three other cases against the city, on the relation respectively of Charles Parsons, of William S. Peterkin, and of James Wadick, were argued at the same time as the preceding case. The city was represented by the same counsel. Mr. D. H. Chamberlain and Mr. William B. Hornblower appearing for Parsons, and Mr. Thomas J. Semmes and Mr. Robert Mott for the relator in each of the other cases. MR. JusTicR FELD, in delivering the opinion of the court, remarked, that each of the cases was, in all essential particulars, similar to that of United States v. New Orleans; and, upon the authority of the decision therein, the judgment below must be reversed, and each cause remanded with directions to issue a writ of mandamus to levy and collect a tax, as prayed by the relator, to pay the judg- ment described in his petition, with lawful interest thereon; and it is So ordered. RAILROAD COMPANY V. GRAT. The jurisdiction conferred upon this court by sect. 847 of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia was taken away by the act of Con- gress approved Feb. 25, 1879, which enacts that a judgment or a decree of the Supreme Court of that District may be re-examined here where the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, exceeds the value of 62,500. This court, therefore, dismisses a writ of error sued out Dec. 6, 1875, to reverse a final judgment of that court where the matter in dispute is of the value of $2,250. MoTioN to dismiss a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. This is a writ of error sued out by the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, the defendant below, on the 6th of December, 1875, to reverse a judgment rendered against it for $2,250 by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. At that time sects. 846 and 847 of the Revised Statutes relat- ing to the District of Columbia, defining the jurisdiction of this court in that class of cases, were in force. [Sup. Ot.

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