1 Mason C.C. 520 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island | 1818
This court has no jurisdiction, which is not given by some statute. The 11th section of the judicial act of 1789, e. 20, declares, that the circuit court shall have original cognizance, among other cáses, of suits “between a citizen of the state, where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.” No clause of this or any subsequent act has enlarged this jurisdiction, so as to embrace the present case. The constitution declares, that it is mandatory to the