Case No. 4,777.

FIELDS v. TAYLOR et al.

Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts.

Oct., 1799.

ALIENS—SUITS BETWEEN.

The plaintiff named himself of London, and the defendants of Manchester, Eng., and declared on two notes made and endorsed in England. The defendant Taylor pleads to the jurisdiction that the causes of action accrued to the plaintiff at Manchester, etc., and of the jurisdiction of this court, and that since the said notes became due, he, Taylor, came to Boston to reside, and is now there with the property only brought With him. The plaintiff in his replication confesses that 42the causes of action accrued at Manchester, etc., but inasmuch as the defendant has by his own showing since that time come to reside in Boston, he prays judgment, etc. After argument, THE COURT adjudged the plea in bar a good and sufficient answer in law to the plaintiff's declaration, and that he ought not to have or maintain his action.

[See Walton v. McNeil, Case No. 17,134.]

[NOTE. Nowhere reported; opinion not now accessible. Statement of the point determined was taken from a note to Rea v. Hayden, 3 Mass. 25. The reporter added that this decision was not founded on the principles of the common law, but rather upon the limited jurisdiction of the federal courts under the constitution and laws of the United States.]

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