The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-11
THEU.S. SUPREME COURT.
DECISION IN THE PXTEIN NOR.
TON BOND CASE.
The Utah POlygamy Cases Dismissed
for Want Of Jurisdietion--
Adjourned 10 October.


WAsHINsTjS, Msy 10.-The follow
ing decisions were rendered in the Eu-
pTene Court to-day:
No. l94 -Ex,tr. Notion, plaintiff N
eIrcr We. Shelby county, Tennessee,
il trfor to the Circuit court Of the
United States ir the Western Dis
tr!Ct OF Tennessee. This is an action
upon twenty-nine Mis- iseippi livar
railroad bods. each OF $1,000, iJ,Uad bv
the County Commissioners of Shelby
county under the acts OF February II.
1867, and March ], 1869, aud payable
Janua'y l, 1875, with interest from
January l, 1869, a. per cent. per
annup, payable semi-aunualy, and
three coupons Of $50 each. 1hs ques-
tons a. issue were whether the
County CJmmi sioners bysswhose d.
rection the bonds were issued we 9
lawful officers of Shelby county
whether if they were not officers de
jttre they were officers de .fdctO, and as
such their action in issuing the bonds
was valid, and whether their action
bad been ratified by the county. The
Circuit Count decided against the
plaintiff on all the points, and the Su-
preme Court sfiirms that decree.
Noe. 1877, 1878 and 1279-LoIeuzo
Snow vs.. the United States. Snow
WIS convicted under the Edmunds act
for unlawful cohahitation and cent 10
prison, where he now is. He appealed
from the Supreme Count of the Terri
tory of Utah, which sustained the
judgment of the lower court ia which
he was convicted. The Supreme Court
of the UHited States holds that it has
no jurisdiction in the cases, and there
fore diemii SIS them. Just CO B atch-
ioid delivele ed the opinion of the court.
He held that in the Cannon case the
CUES ion of Jurisdiction was not con-
sideled, and as the case was decide d
at the present term it had been decid-
ed to recall the mandste and dismiss
the case for want of jurisdiction, in
order that the reported decision may
not appear to be precedent for the
exercise of jurisdiction by the court in
a case OF the kind.
No. 1922 The United S ates vs.,
John M. Langston; app saledfrom the
Court OF Claims. Mr.. Lsng ,ton, who
Yves formerly Minister to Hayti, sued
for balance OF salary and the Court
OF Gains gave him judgment for
1862 The Supreme Court sffilms
the decision.
No. 1246-The United Sta es VIZ.
Kagama, alias "Psctah Billy" and
Mahawsha, alias "BeD," on a certif.
cate Of division in opinion between
the judges Of the Circuit Court of the
United States for California. The Su.
preme Court decides to be ccnsti-
tutional the provisions of the In.
dian appropriation act for 1885,
making an Indian committing
murder tie Indian reservation
wholly within a State, and max
fog such Indian subject to be
tnedin tue same courts aud subject to
the came penalties as other per. OBS,
and also decides that the United
States courts have no Jurisdiction to
try end punish an Indian belonging t.
an Indian ttibe for committing muir
der upon another Indisn of the same
tribe, both sustaining the same tribal
relations, when the crime is com.
mitted upon an Indian reservation set
apart for the tribe to which they both
belong.
No. 12Sl-Wo Lee, appellant, VS. the
Sberif of San Francisco, and No.
1880, Yick Wo, vs. the same. The plain
titfs were convicted under an ordi-
nance Of the city Of San Fran ci.Co,
prohibiting the carrying on of laun-
dry in frame building snd sent to
prison. The Supreme Court holds
the ordinance to be discrimins ton
aQainst the Chinese end wr7, there
fore, illegal and a violation of the
fourteenth amendment to the consti-
tuition. The decisions OF the lower
COURTS are reversed and the cases re-
masded with directions to di. charge
the prisoners from custody.
No. 552-Morgan's Louisiana and
Texas Railroad and Steamship Com
pany VS.. the Board Of Health of the
State of Louisiana; in error to the
Supreme Court of Lou sisna. This
suit was brought by the Morgan com.
pany to restrain the Board of Heath
from collecting the fee autho. lied by
an act of the Legislature to be c7l-
lected from each ves.e passing the
quarantine station for inspection and
fumigation services. The Supreme
Court Of ths State decided against the
company and the Supreme Court af-
firms that decision.
The Court affirmed the judgment OF
the California courts in the alifornia
railroad tax Gates. Justice Field IN
Cured in separate opinio1.
The following order was entered !:
1t appearing that, owing 10 the
number of decisions made at this term,
q second volume Of reports is neces-
sary, ordered that the reporter cause
1t to be printed and published, pursu-
al to the provisions of section 6Sl Of
the Revised Statutes, and of c.ion
Of chapter $50 of the acts Of the first
sec ion OF the Forty-seventh Con-
gress's order. Ordered by the court,
that the second section Of rule "a Of
this court be, and the same lie hsieby,
amended by adding thereto the fol-
lowing: '0r be enlarged upon lecog.
nizlnce as hereinafter provided"
Ordered: 1t is Tow hereby ordered by
the court that ali cases on the docket
not decided, and all the other bu,i.
ness of the term not disposed of by
the court, he, snd the same is hereby,
continued until the next term Of the
court.
Adjourned until October next.