Case ID: f-cas_12/html/0056-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TRIGG, District Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 6,428.
    HERRON v. RUNKLE.
    [1 Am. Law Rev. 217.]
    Circuit Court, W. D. Tennessee.
    April 11, 1866.
    Freedmen’s Bureau — Injunction against Trespass. .
    [A court of equity cannot enjoin the commission of a trespass on the part of an officer of the Freedmen’s Bureau, in the levying of an execution upon personal property.)
    This was a bill praying for injunction to restrain the defendant, who was superintendent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, from enforcing, against the personal estate of the plaintiff’s testator, a judgment rendered by the defendant against plaintiff’s testator, a white citizen, in favor of a freedman.
   TRIGG, District Judge,

held that the act of March 3, 1865, § 1 [13 Stat. 507], gave the Freedmen’s Bureau no jurisdiction to determine such suits, and that the enforcement of the judgment woiild be a trespass, but that the court could not enjoin against the commission of such trespass, and that the parties must be left to their remedies at law.