Summary
In Wood v. Wagnon, 2 Cranch 9, the judgment in favour of the plaintiff below was reversed, because his petition did not show the jurisdiction of the court. It stated the plaintiff to be a citizen of the state of Pennsylvania, and James Wood, the defendant, to be "of Georgia, aforesaid."
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FEBRUARY TERM, 1804.
ERROR from the circuit court of the district of Georgia.
The judgment was reversed, because it did not appear upon the record that the circuit court had jurisdiction of the case.
The proceedings stated, that "the petition of John "Peter Wagnon, a citizen of the state of Pennsylvania, "sheweth,
"That James Wood, of the state of Georgia," c.
The objection taken was, that it did not appear that the plaintiff and defendant were citizens of different states, and on that ground the judgment was reversed, upon the authority of Bingham v. Cabot et al. 3 Dall. 382.