Case Name: HERRON v. RUNKLE
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Tennessee
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1866-04-11
Citations: 12 F. Cas. 56
Docket Number: 
Parties: HERRON v. RUNKLE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 12
Pages: 56–56

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.