Case Name: JENNINGS v. WASHINGTON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1838-11
Citations: 13 F. Cas. 547
Docket Number: Case No. 7,284
Parties: JENNINGS v. WASHINGTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 13
Pages: 547–547

Head Matter:
Case No. 7,284.
JENNINGS v. WASHINGTON.
[5 Cranch, C. C. 512.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Nov. Term, 1838.
Mr. Dermott, for appellant,
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

Opinion:
But THE COUBT
(nem. con.) was of opinion that the by-law in question was justified by the clause in the charter which gives the corporation power "to restrain and prohibit the nightly and other disorderly meetings of slaves, free negroes, and mulattoes." Judgment affirmed, with costs.