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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 17,418.
    WESCOTT v. FAIRFIELD TP.
    [Pet. C. C. 45.] 
    
    Circuit Court, D. New Jersey.
    Oct. Term, 1811.
    Jurisdiction of Circuit Courts — Citizenship.
    A citizen of the District of Columbia is not entitled to sue in the circuit courts of the United States.
    [Cited in Barney v. Baltimore, 6 Wall. (73 U. S.l 288: Cissel v. McDonald, Case No. 2,-729. Cited in brief in MeMurdy v. Connecticut Gen. Life Ins. Co., Id. 8,903.]
    The declaration is in the name of Den, a citizen of the District of Columbia, on the demise of Wescott, also a citizen of the same district, against the inhabitants, &c., citizens of the state of New Jersey. The plaintiff moved for a rule on the defendants, to appear by the next court and confess lease, &c. This was objected to by Leake for the defendants, on the ground that the court could not take jurisdiction of the cause, the plaintiff being a citizen of the District of Columbia, and therefore not within the provision of the act of congress, giving jurisdiction to the circuit court. He cited Ash v. Hayman [Case No. 572].
   BY THE COURT.

The ease cited is conclusive; and of course, the plaintiff can take nothing by his motion.