DIGGS & KEITH

v.

WOLCOTT

U.S. | 1807-02-01

4 Cranch 179 Supreme Court of the United States (1807) Negative Treatment

Also reported at: 2 L. Ed. 587 · 1807 U.S. LEXIS 378 · SCDB 1807-019

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Opinion of the Court

but The Court

but The Court being of opinion, that a circuit court of the United States had not jurisdiction to enjoin proceedings in a state court,

Reversed the decree.

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Toucey v. N.Y. Life Ins. Co., 314 U.S. 118 (U.S. 1941)

…ages of law.” The general powers thus given to the federal courts were obviously limited by the subsequent enactment of the specific prohibitory provisions of the Act of 1793. The first case arising under the provision was Diggs & Keith v. Wolcott, 4 Cranch 179 (1807), where the appellants brought an action at law on various promissory notes in a state court. While this action was still pending, the defendant filed a bill in the state chancery court for cancellation of the notes. The latter suit was remove…
In re Ayers, 123 U.S. 443 (U.S. 1887)
Simon v. S. Ry. Co., 236 U.S. 115 (U.S. 1915)

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