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
Per curiam.

Dewhurst v. Coulthard, 3 U.S. 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: "T]his court will not take cognizance of any suit, or controversy not brought before them by regular process of law."^[1]

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 https://books.google.com/books?id=NEQPAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s