Dewhurst v. Coulthard

Dewhurst v. Coulthard
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February, 1799
Full case name	John Dewhurst v. Isaac Coulthard
Citations	3 U.S. 409 ( more ) 3 Dall. 409; 1 L. Ed. 658;
Case history
Prior	Circuit Court of the N.Y. District
Holding
Motion denied, held that the Court could not hear a case that was not brought before it by the regular process of law.
Court membership
Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth Associate Justices William Cushing  · James Iredell William Paterson  · Samuel Chase
Case opinion
Per curiam

Dewhurst v. Coulthard, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 409 (1799), was a United States Supreme Court case that initiated with a civil suit brought by Isaac Coulthard (owner of Coulthard's Brewery) against John Dewhurst which reached the Court by a convoluted process. The Court refused to hear the case: "This court will not take cognizance of any suit, or controversy not brought before them by regular process of law." ^[1]

References

1. Curtis, Benjamin Robbins; Dallas, Alexander James; Court, United States Supreme; Cranch, William; Wheaton, Henry; Peters, Richard; Howard, Benjamin Chew (1870). Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States. Little, Brown.

External links

• Text of Dewhurst v. Coulthard, 3 U.S. (3 Dall. )409(1799) is available from: Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress OpenJurist