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pendency of the snit will operate lis pendens notice to the world of the plaintiff's claims in reference to the same. There is no allegation that either of the defendltnts the Chase National· Bank and Simon insolvent, or are about to make any improper disposition of the subject-matter of the controversy. The First National Bank of Lima occupying the position merely of a stakeholder or. collecting agent of the Chase National Bank, should not be kept under an injunction restraining it from surrendering this past-due noto to its principal, there being nothing to show that said plaintiff (the Chase National Bank) is in allY way irresponsible. 'l'he motion of the First National Bank of Lima is accordingly sustained, and said injunction against it will be. dissolved. The costs of its motion will be taxed against the plaintiff. . . . The clerk of the United States circuit court for the northern district of Ohio, western division, will make upon the minutes of said court entries in conformity with the foregoing rulings upon the several motions. ... AZTEC MIN. CO. Y.
RIPLEY.
(Circqit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. October 17, 1892.) No. 70. 1. CmOUIT COURT OF APPEALS-JURISDIOTION-ApPEALS FROM TERRITORIAL SUe PRBME CoURTS.
No appeal lies from a territorial supreme court to the circuit court of appeals in an action of assumpsit between citizens of the territory for goods sold and delivered; for by the judiciary act of March 8. 1891, 15, appeals from territorial supreme courts are limited to cases in which the judgments of the circuit courts of appeal· are "made final by this act, "and in sllction 6 its judgments are made' final" only in controversies in which the jurisdiction depends on diverse citizenship. in admiralty cases, and in cases arising under the patent laws, the revenue laws, and the criminal laws. . There is no ground for the contention that the clause, "in cases in which the judgments of the circuit courts of appeal are made final by this act," was inserted in section 15 by a mistake or clerical error.
2.
SAME-CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTE.
In Errol' to the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico. Writ dismissed. Warwick Hough and WarwickM. Hough, for the motion. Nathan Frank, opposed Before CALDWELL and SANBORN, Circuit Judges, and SHI· RAS, District Judge.
SHIRA.S, District Judge. In September, 1890, John W. Ripley, a resident of the territory of :New Mexico, brought an action in assumpsit in the district court of the third judicial district of said ter· ritory against the Aztec Mining Company, a corporation created and organized under the laws of said territory of New Mexico, to recover the sum of $1,617.15, alleged to be due for goods sold and delivered. Judgment having been entered in favor of the plaintiff in the action, the defendant therein sued out a writ of error to the supreme court of the territory, which, on the 6th of January, 1892, aftirmed the
jt1dgment 'of, tIre district" court, (28 Pac. .. J73;) · the; Mining CompanY' sned "out a writ 6f error in' this, court to court of thEi tertitory, and duly filedth'e transcript of the, roooNt and caused the caM to be docketed in this court. The defel1dknt:tinerror,John W. nipley, now files' a motion to dismiss the writ'On!thegronndthatth.isCQurt does not havejurWliction, and the proceedings and judgment had in the supreme OOUJi't; of. the territory in this: cause. · 'Xb.eiunisdiction of the 'circuit courts of appeal to review the judgmentsand decrees of the slll'prem.ecourts of the territor'jes is conferrell' by ,thefifteentll seotlonof the act of March 3, 1891, which readS ras follows: ' "That the circuit courts of appeal, Incases in Which the judgments of the circuit,courts" of appeal are made fihl1lby this act. shall have the same apnellate of error or appea.l, 'to review the judgmentlJ, orders. and det1'lesupreme courts of, the se'Veral territories as !:>y this act they may have to revl\!W the judgments, orders, and decrees of the district court and circuit courts; and for that purpose the several territories shall. by orders of the supreme court, to be made from time to time, be assigned to particular circuits. "
By order of the supreme pourt, the territory of New Mexico has 'been assigned, to this circuit, and this court therefore possesses over the decrees and judgments ofthe supreme court of that territory the jurisdiction that is conferred by the section of the act of March 3, 1891, cited. This section expressly limits the appellate jurisdiction of this court to cases in which the judgment of this court is made final by the provisioDS'()fthe act of March 3, 1891. Section 6 of. that act ena,cts that "tile judgments or decrees of the circuit (1ourts of appeal shall be final in. all cases in which the jW'isdiction is dependent entirely upon the opposite parties to the suit or controversy being aliens or citizens OfthelJnited States., or citizens of different states; .aIRo in nU cases arising nnder-the patent laws, under the revenue laws, and under the criminal ll;tws, and in admiralty cases." The case at bar does within a,ny one of the classes wherein the judgment of this lcourt is declared to be a finality. It is nota case inadmitalty, nor (loes it arise under the criminal, revenue, or patent laws of the United States, nor is it a case between oithe United States, or between citizens of differaliens and ent states; and therefore it does not belong to any of the classes of cases in which this court is clothed with appeilate jurisdiction. On. behalf of .the plaintiff in error'it is argued that the words, "in cases in which the judgments of the circuit courts of appeal are made final by this act." must have been inserted in section 15 of the act of March 3; 1891;' through some mistake or clerical error, and should therefore be disregarded. It is evident that, unless these words are stricken from the section, it cannot be successfully claimed that this court can take jurisdiction in the· case, and hence counsel are driven to the necessity of arguing that the court must wholly disregard the portions of the 'section which define and limit the classes of cases in which appellate jurisdiction is conferred. No argumeht is needed to show that such a method of construing the statute is wholly in· admissible. It is true, as argued by counsel, that, if it be held that
UNITED STATES V. NATIONAL EXCH. BANK.
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this court has not appellate jurisdiction in this class of cases, then the larger part of causes pending in the territorial courts cannot be appealed either to the supreme court of the United States or to the circuit courts of appeal, but in that respect the residents of the territories are only placed on an equal footing with the citizens of· the several states. In the larger number of cases brought in the courts of the state, the only appeal is to the supreme court of the state, and in the territory of New Mexico there isa supreme court to which an appeal lies' the same as in the several states. On the other hand, if it should be held that this court can take jurisdiction in this class of cases over the decrees and judgments of the supreme court of territory of New Mexico, the judgment of this court would not be final, under the provisions of section 6 of the act of March 3, 1891, and thus a case not involving any question arising under the constitution .or laws of the United States could be carried first to the supreme court of the territory, thence to the circuit appellate court, and thence to the supreme court of the United States. Certainly it was not the intent of congress, in adopting the act of March 3, 1891, to thus enlarge the right of appeal on behalf of the residents of the several territories. According to the plain reading of section 6 of said act of March 3, 1891, the case at bar does not fall within any of the classes of cases in which this court is given appellate jurisdiction over the judgments or decrees of the supreme court of the territory of New Mexico, and the motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction is therefore sustained. UNITED STATES v. NATIONAL EXCH. BANK OF MILWAUKEE. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. October 11, 1892.)
CIRCUIT COURT OIl' APPEALS-JURISDICTION..,..WRIT OIl' ERROR. The United States circuit court of appeals bas no jurisdiction to review a judgment rendered before the act creating that court (26 St. at Large. c. 517) was passed, where the amount claimed was too small to give jurisdiction to the supreme court, since there is nothing in said act it a retrospective effect.
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Dismissed. Elihu Colman, for plaintiff in error. Van Dyke & Van Dyke, for defendant in error. Before GRESHAM, Circuit Judge, and BLODGETT and JENKINS, District Judges. JENKINS, District J uoge. This case was brought in the court below to recover of the defendant bank the sum of $1,259.05, and upon the trial, and on the 2d dl:l.y of February, 1891, judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant bank, (45 Fed. Rep. 163,) and writ of error to this court was sued out on the 29th day of July, 1891. The act creating this court was approved March 3, 1891, (26 St. c. 517.) At the time ofthe rendition of this judgment there existed no right to a review