Mossman v. Higginson

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided August 11, 1800

Full case name

Mossman v. Higginson

Citations

1 L. Ed. 720; 1800 U.S. LEXIS 298; 4 Dall. 12

Holding

"The parties to an equity suit must be so described on the record as to show that the court has jurisdiction. It is not enough that an alien is a party ; the other party must be a citizen. A writ of error may be amended by filling the blank left for the return day, there being enough on the writ to amend by."

Court membership

Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth

Associate Justices William Cushing · William Paterson Samuel Chase · Bushrod Washington Alfred Moore

Mossman v. Higginson, 4 U.S. 12 (1800), was an 1800 decision of the United States Supreme Court asserting that "The parties to an equity suit must be so described on the record as to show that the court has jurisdiction. It is not enough that an alien is a party ; the other pafty must be a citizen. A writ of error may be amended by filling the blank left for the return day, there being enough on the writ to amend by."^[1]

References

↑ Reports of decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States: with notes and a digest, Volume 1 (Little, Brown, 1887), pg. 313

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