Court Opinion

ID: 9883060
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 01:36:23.375597+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:19.752892
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Me. Chief Justice Fullee,
with whom concurred Me. Justice Lamae,
dissenting.
Me. Justice Lamae and myself are' unable to concur in the decision just announced.
This court, has original jurisdiction of two classes of cases *649only, those affecting ambassadors, other public. ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party.
The judicial'power extends to “controversies between two or more States;” “between a State and citizens of another State;” and “between a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens or subjects.” Our original jurisdiction, which depends solely upon the character of the parties, is confined to the cases enumerated, in which a State may be a party, and this is not one of them.
The judicial power also extends to controversies to which the United States shall be a party, but such controversies are not included in the grant of original jurisdiction. To the controversy here the United States is a party.
~We are of opinion, therefore, that this case is not within the original jurisdiction of the court.