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Dow Vs. Johnson

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1879

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  10. U.S. 158 (1879) U.S. Supreme Court Dow v. Johnson
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  11. U.S. 158 (1879) Dow v. Johnson
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  12. laws, administered by its authority, could they be called to account. As was observed in the recent case of Coleman v. Tennessee
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  13. taken in such case may have had a just claim against the government for indemnity. The case of Elphinstone v. Bedreechund
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  14. judgment in question, and the special pleas in this case constituted a perfect answer to the declaration. See Coleman v. Tennessee
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  15. also LeCaux v. Eden
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  16. and Coolidge v. Guthrie
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  17. the law shall alone govern, and to it the military must always yield. We do not controvert the doctrine of Mitchell v. Harmony
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  18. of justice, except when the civil tribunals are silenced by the exigencies of military rule or martial law. Luther v. Borden
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  19. right, and it is clear that the emergency must be shown to exist before the taking can be justified. United States v. Russell
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  20. being that an order to commit a trespass can afford no justification to the person by whom it is executed. Mitchell v. Harmony
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  21. nor in the second, unless it appeared that the necessity and urgency were such as would not admit of delay. Farmer v. Lewis
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  22. abuse of his authority, and the owner of the goods is entitled to recover in trespass for the damage suffered. Harmony v. Mitchell
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  23. the universal rule was that the supreme court would only consider the single question or questions certified. Ogle v. Lee
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  24. question or questions certified here by the circuit judges, in respect to which they were divided in opinion. Ward v. Chamberlain
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  25. of division to anything except what would be open to revision here under a writ of error or appeal. Davis v. Braden
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  26. those tribunals courts of general jurisdiction in all civil causes not embraced within the exception. Fournequet v. Perkins
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  27. true that the jurisdiction of suits of every description is transferred to the new tribunals. United States v. Rice
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  28. conceded that the mere occupancy of the territory does not necessarily displace the local tribunals of justice. Pein v. Lachenmeyer
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  29. of General Butler, seize private property as booty of war, or make any order confiscating it. Planters' Bank v. Union
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  30. in this case is wholly wanting, without which the acts charged in the declaration cannot be justified. Sellards v. Zomes
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  31. judicial process for the abuse of his authority or for wrongful acts done outside of his military jurisdiction. Mortyn v. Fabrigas
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  32. the questions were elaborately argued, and that the judgment of the lower court was unanimously affirmed. McLaughlin v. Green
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  33. Way v. Yally
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  34. an action of trespass brought by the soldier against the captain, that the plaintiff was entitled to recover. Mallory v. Bryant
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  35. military forces, but in all other cases, the civil power excludes martial law and government by the war power. Griffin v. Wilcox
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  36. of war and such that a person of ordinary intelligence would know that obedience would be illegal and criminal. Riggs v. State
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  37. Commonwealth v. Palmer
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  38. as booty or to confiscate it, for the reason that hostilities had ceased and the courts were open. Planters' Bank v. Union
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  39. Rogers v. Dutt
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  40. Wilson v. Franklin
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  41. not within his jurisdiction, his acts are void, and will afford no justification to those who act under him. Darling v. Bowen
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  42. if any be needed, is found in several English Page 100 U. S. 190 cases of undoubted authority. Warden v. Bailey
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  43. of that district, after the said proclamation, could not seize private property as booty of war. Planters' Bank v. Union
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  44. U.S. Supreme Court Dow v. Johnson
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  45. of Coleman v. Tennessee
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  46. of Elphinstone v. Bedreechund
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  47. See Coleman v. Tennessee
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  48. LeCaux v. Eden
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  49. of Mitchell v. Harmony
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  50. United States v. Russell
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