New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-30
United STATES SUPREME coURE

JrRIsDIcTIoNIN THE sOUTH-TRADEDuRINGTH THE
| W,R--TuE LAW OF CONTRACTs-ThE MENl-
CAN COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2l.-Tbe following rulings
10y the United States supreme Court have Just peeh pun
! lishcd:
Irngng Of action an esGI to dcny s SG Dors
Jdqneuts Of its COUrfS-icf % '"Strec''0h"'g Ley'
U"GS"gn I'm G@Iri!an, agt. Boom and Booth, Admnis
traitors Rulings of C. j. Peck. party VINO Ollbgs
his sur in court and prays tho Judgment o c court
on the case made 10y him, or takes an appeal rom an IN
feriCr 20 superior court and assigns errors ana PAyS
the reversal Of the Judgment OF the sdlu hlt
thereby admits the legal competency and jurisdiction "f
the court, and viii not aierwaid Ice permitted 20 uey
punge the entry thereof from the records of the court
H. The government InauguTaed III TINS state 10y 'oN'
Parsons after tho suppression Ot tno late KeheA"h,
under the commission aud authority OF the President o
the United States although said government MAS ai
declared be lille gal government 10y congress
I'm the acts commonly known Hs tho Reconstruction A'-
yet said nets do not declare sad goyeInn,nt 10 p
OF Wien Ills State formed part aud was 50 continued
by said commander. Thereby said government he.
came a LEGAL provisional government and IL at'r and
,S oS's of said state TIE Tact
courts of .ad provisional government OF any OF then;
may have embraced ~ the class OF ro1 declared
m The Vth amendment ofthc Housi tuition % Tie nIied
hee good reason their removal yet 70 long - thry
we're permitted hold their offices, judgments we're
valid us the parties thesciyes tmrd persons ana 'he
III The fifteenth ordinance Of the Convention IN TN,
staff, I'm nr
aCts OF public officers ln tln 0ule ulueI tnt ~ ,
States military authority during the rAlstch,. VI -. u.s.,
uresent provisional government, shsIl nav, Wv i
tfce and validity ns If the came had been done ~ quo
course law" THIS ordinance 'a' 800 -. 80
Judgments OF the courts under s"iu p'"'S'" N'''"
~ qe net ~ the 9th Of November lsi entitled IAN
ACT 10 authorize oxccutoIb administrators. GUARDIAN
and trustees make loans To the Confederate Si" hhd
to nurcase and receive pa meut 81 dob7 dn" ih"n
bonds and Treasury notes Of the Confederate Hlhrr" ~
OF the State Of Alabama. ana coupons Whh hl" quo on
bonds of the Confederate States aud oi SAID STATE H. ~
al
of United States and Is. therefore. nun hu Sou rs
existing aid and comfort To the public enemy Of tbo
SUPREME COURT oF TENNESSEE
Trade B,cca LOya and Isr0eii Sates-EGooi Of Ooci
patton 81 Laiter by United states foree'-foeer ~
IiresiJsbf 10 grant general Lc,u.r.
Groham agt MerTui-Rulings OF j. sMirlI.-When the
United States during the Late war acquired hf "o,uln
ton OF part Of nn insnrrecuonaiy state the cHths oil
that part occupied were restored to thtr relations rs
citizens Of the United states ana contracts between them
and other citizens became valid.
The act Of July 49, 1861, aud tho proclamation oi lho
President OF Aug l6 lSDl aath9Lhen i,,
Of those parts Of nsgent ha'cs ~ occupation OF
OF the loyal aud nsurgcnt States subject 20 The license
OF the President the regulations prescribed by tho
Feb 49, 1862. general license % such intercourse
But by Presidents proclamation Of March 81 1863 the
distinction was abolished aud all intercourse between
the citizens OF loyal aud insufgent States was made sub
ject by the President and tho regulations Of tho
lawfulncss Of such intercourse that tho parry engaging ia
1t should have special license to himself by nann under
the Presidents sign manual The PrcsdCut- power
To license might be delegated or night be exercised by
general Proclamation such as those OF fob g. 1862 aud
March 81, 1868.
CONTRACT.
l. LeI Loci Common Law Adjudication of other
States. The law OF the place where contract u made
will ordinarily govern In It's construction the rights
OF the parties hereunder; but when question arises
under the common law law merchant, the Courts Of
this State Will not be concluded hs to what the
common law rule In such Is 10y what the
Courts Of the State where the contract made have
decided III relation thereto Alter II the decision was
upon question arising under custom Of usage Of
the place where the contract made. Franklin agt.
TwOgOOd % Iowa.