AN ARGUMENT ON BEHALF OF THE DEFENDANTS, IN THE CASE OF ISAAC SHELBY, A CITIZEN OF KENTUCKY, VERSUS JOHN BACON, ALEXANDER SYMINGTON...CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. DECEMBER, 1850.

Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1851. Contemporary plain wrappers. 35, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, lightly foxed, wrappers a bit dirty with a closed tear. Good+.

Porter, representing the Trustees of the dissolved Pennsylvania Bank of the United States, opposed Henry Clay in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Shelby was a Kentucky creditor of the insolvent Bank, which assigned its assets for the payment of its debts under the laws of Pennsylvania. Shelby disputed the Pennsylvania court's settlement of the Bank's claims, and challenged the settlement in federal court. The issue was whether the federal court could take jurisdiction of the case and overturn the State court's judgment.
The Supreme Court held that federal courts were expressly granted jurisdiction to hear cases involving diversity of citizenship, that no ruling of a State could divest them of that jurisdiction; and that the State court's jurisdiction could not, in any event, extend beyond that State's boundaries. The case is reported at 51 U.S. 56 [1850].
Cohen 11234. Item #29551

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