Source: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_v._Edrington
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 03:10:55+00:00

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MOTION to dismiss an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi.
This is an appeal by O'Reilly, assignee in bankruptcy, from the decree of the court below, affirming, in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, the decree of the District Court, whereby the appellees, who were defendants, recovered against him, by reason of the matters set up in their cross-bill, $5,050.
1. The following agreement between the parties. dated April 30, 1874, signed by them, approved by their respective counsel, and ratified and confirmed by the judge of the District Court, whose decree was affirmed by the Circuit Court, bars the right to any appeal to this court.
2. There is no jurisdictional amount in dispute on the appeal.
3. The appeal is frivolous, and taken for delay.
4. There is no legal bond in the record.
5. The case is neither within the appellate jurisdiction of this court, nor of the Circuit Court, unless in the exercise of the supervisory powers of the latter, and there its decrees are final and irrevocable.
Mr. Thomas J. Durant and Mr. C. W. Hornor in support of the motion.
Mr. Alexander Porter Morse and Mr. A. B. Pittman, in opposition thereto, cited Knapp v. Banks, 2 How. 73; Gordon v. Ogden, 3 Pet. 33; Walker v. United States, 4 Wall. 163; Merril v. Petty, 16 id. 345; Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Rogers, 93 U.S. 565; Silver v. Ladd, 6 Wall. 440; Davison v. Lanier, 4 id. 454; Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 1 Wheat. 361; Jerome v. McCarter, 21 Wall. 17; Martin v. Hazard Powder Co., 93 U.S. 302; Milner v. Meek, 95 id. 252; Deen v. Hemphill, Hempst. 154; Anson, Bangs, & Co. v. The Blue Ridge Railroad Co., 23 How. 1; Seymour v. Freer, 5 Wall. 822; Brobst v. Brobst, 2 id. 96; Powell, Appellate Proceedings, 371; Hilliard, New Trials, 740; Robeson v. Lewis, 64 N. C. 734; McDonald v. Bradley, 8 Ired. (N. C.) 72; Stickney v. Wilt, 23 Wall. 150.

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