PERKINS v. FOURNIQUET ET AL.

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47 U.S. 206 (1848)

6 How. 206

12 L.Ed. 406

JOHN PERKINS, APPELLANT, v. EDWARD F. FOURNIQUET AND WIFE, AND MARTIN W. EWING AND WIFE.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 6, 1848.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henderson and Mr. Fendall moved to dismiss it, for want of jurisdiction, because the decree of the Circuit Court was not a final decree. The motion was opposed by Mr. Mayer and Mr. Coxe.


Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This, like the case just decided, is a motion to dismiss the appeal, upon the ground, that the decree in the Circuit Court was not a final one.

In the preceding case, we have stated the construction which this court has given to the acts of 1789 and 1803 upon this subject; and we have stated it more fully than the case itself required, in order that the Circuit Courts might distinctly understand ...

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