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Ex parte Milligan U.S. 2 (1867)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0393 and id is 1 raw text is: EX PARTE MILLIGAN. Syllabus. BROBST ET AL. V. BROBST. This court cannot take jurisdidtion on a certificate of division in a case where the question certified is one of fact and can only be determined by an examination of the evidence in the record. Tins case came here on a certificate of division from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The -record showed a lifigation in respect to an alleged fraud in obtaining a deed of large tracts of land by the prin- cipal defendant from the complainant. The decree found the fraud alleged, and held the deed null as to the principal defendant, but stated that the judges were opposed in opinion on the question whether his four co-defendants, who claimed by deeds under him, were chargeable as privies to the fraud, and this question was accordingly certified to this court. .f1essrs. Brent and Merrick moved to dismiss the case for want of jurisdiction. The CHEF JUSTICE: The question is one of fact, and can only be determined by an examination of the evidence in the record; and it has been repeatedly determined that only questions of law upon distinct points in a cause can be brought to this court by certificate.* An order must be made, therefore, remanding this cause to the Circuit Court, without answer to the question certi- fied, for want of jurisdiction. Ex PARTE MILLIGAN. 1. Circfit Courts, as well as the judges thereof, are authorized, by the four- teenth section of the Judiciary Act, to issue the writ of lmbeas corp for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of commitment, and they have * Wilson v. Barnum, 8 Howard, 261. [Slip. Ot.

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