Börs v. Preston

Citations

• 111 U.S. 252
• 4 S. Ct. 407
• 28 L. Ed. 419
• 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1781

Syllabus

<p>Consul— Constitutional Law — Evidence.</p> <p>In cases coming from tlie Circuit Courts, this court will determine from its • own inspection of the record, whether they are of the class excluded by statute from the cognizance of those courts; this, although the question of jurisdiction is not raised by the parties.</p> <p>The constitutional grant of original jurisdiction to this court of all cases affecting consuls, does not prevent Congress from conferring original jurisdiction, in such cases, also, upon the subordinate courts of the Union.</p> <p>The jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts of the United States of suits by citizens against aliens, is not defeated by the fact that the defendant is the consul of a foreign government.</p> <p>The alienage of a defendant is not to be presumed from the mere fact that he is the consul, in this country, of a foreign government.</p>