Case ID: us_76/html/0504-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The CHEEP JUSTICE", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Nonesuch.
    The court has no jurisdiction of a cause transferred here from the Circuit Court by consent of parties. The Alicia (7 Wallace, 672) affirmed.
    This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida to the Circuit Court for the same district. There had been no decree rendered in that court, but consent of parties was given to the transfer of the cause into this court. ' The record was accordingly filed, and the case docketed. Upon the case being called, it was submitted by Mr. Feld, Assistant Attorney General for the United States, no opposite counsel appearing.
    
   The CHEEP JUSTICE

delivered the opinion of the court

This court cannot acquire jurisdiction of a cause pending in a Circuit Court by transfer.. This was determined at the last term in the case of The Alicia In that case the record had not been filed, and a motion was made to docket and dismiss. That motion was denied, on the ground that the court could not take jurisdiction. Iu this case the record has been filed, and the cause has been docketed here. The order, therefore, must be that the cause be

Dismissed eor want oe jurisdiction. 
      
       7 Wallace, 572.