Mossman v. Higginson

Mossman v. Higginson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided August 11, 1800
Full case name	Mossman v. Higginson
Citations	4 U.S. 12 (more) 1 L. Ed. 720; 1800 U.S. LEXIS 298; 4 Dall. 12
Holding
"The parties to an equity suit must be so described on the record as to show that the court has jurisdiction. It is not enough that an alien is a party ; the other party must be a citizen. A writ of error may be amended by filling the blank left for the return day, there being enough on the writ to amend by."
Court membership
Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth Associate Justices William Cushing · William Paterson Samuel Chase · Bushrod Washington Alfred Moore

Mossman v. Higginson, 4 U.S. 12 (1800), was an 1800 decision of the United States Supreme Court asserting that "The parties to an equity suit must be so described on the record as to show that the court has jurisdiction. It is not enough that an alien is a party ; the other pafty must be a citizen. A writ of error may be amended by filling the blank left for the return day, there being enough on the writ to amend by."^[1]

References

1. Reports of decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States: with notes and a digest, Volume 1 (Little, Brown, 1887), pg. 313