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) 1 L. Ed. 658; 3 Dall. 409
Prior history	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 opinions
Majority	Per curiam

Dewhurst v. Coulthard 3 U.S. 409 (Dall.) (1799) is an early United States Supreme Court case which 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 so the court refused to hear the case: "[t]his court will not take cognizance of any suit, or controversy not brought before them by regular process of law."^[1]

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 3

References

1. ^ Reports of decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States: with notes, and a digest, Volume 1 (Little, Brown, and Co., 1870) pg. 290 http://books.google.com/books?id=NEQPAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s