Case Name: WESCOTT v. FAIRFIELD TP.
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1811-10
Citations: 29 F. Cas. 709
Docket Number: 
Parties: WESCOTT v. FAIRFIELD TP.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 29
Pages: 709–709

Head Matter:
Case No. 17,418.
WESCOTT v. FAIRFIELD TP.
[Pet. C. C. 45.]
Circuit Court, D. New Jersey.
Oct. Term, 1811.
Jurisdiction of Circuit Courts — Citizenship.
A citizen of the District of Columbia is not entitled to sue in the circuit courts of the United States.
[Cited in Barney v. Baltimore, 6 Wall. (73 U. S.l 288: Cissel v. McDonald, Case No. 2,-729. Cited in brief in MeMurdy v. Connecticut Gen. Life Ins. Co., Id. 8,903.]
The declaration is in the name of Den, a citizen of the District of Columbia, on the demise of Wescott, also a citizen of the same district, against the inhabitants, &c., citizens of the state of New Jersey. The plaintiff moved for a rule on the defendants, to appear by the next court and confess lease, &c. This was objected to by Leake for the defendants, on the ground that the court could not take jurisdiction of the cause, the plaintiff being a citizen of the District of Columbia, and therefore not within the provision of the act of congress, giving jurisdiction to the circuit court. He cited Ash v. Hayman [Case No. 572].

Opinion:
BY THE COURT.
The ease cited is conclusive; and of course, the plaintiff can take nothing by his motion.