[DOWNLOAD] "Thompson Willson and Others, Plaintiffs in Error v. the Black Bird Creek Marsh Company" by United States Supreme Court # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Thompson Willson and Others, Plaintiffs in Error v. the Black Bird Creek Marsh Company
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1829
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 87 KB
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The defendants in error deny the jurisdiction of this Court, because, they say, the record does not show that the constitutionality of the act of the legislature, under which the plaintiff claimed to support his action, was drawn into question. Undoubtedly the plea might have stated in terms that the act, so far as it authorized a dam across the creek, was repugnant to the constitution of the United States; and it might have been safer, it might have avoided any question respecting jurisdiction, so to frame it. But we think it impossible to doubt that the constitutionality of the act was the question, and the only question, which could have been discussed in the state court. That question must have been discussed and decided.