Mumford v. Wright

Connecticut Superior Court

Mumford v. Wright

1 Kirby 297

DecidedSeptember 15, 1787

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Mumford v. Wright, 1 Kirby 297 (Colo. Ct. App. 1787).

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Opinion

By the Court.

(Sherman, J., absent.) How far an eto post facto law can operate, to impair contracts; or how far we are^ bound to regard statutes of another jurisdiction, which we may apprehend to be unjust, is not necessary in this case to determine: Eor the defendants do not come within the statute relied upon, not being, at the time of the tender, citizens of, or resident in the state of Rhode Island; to persons of which description only the benefits of the act extend.

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By the Court.

(Sherman, J., absent.) How far an eto post facto law can operate, to impair contracts; or how far we are^ bound to regard statutes of another jurisdiction, which we may apprehend to be unjust, is not necessary in this case to determine: Eor the defendants do not come within the statute relied upon, not being, at the time of the tender, citizens of, or resident in the state of Rhode Island; to persons of which description only the benefits of the act extend.

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1 Kirby 297, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/mumford-v-wright-connsuperct-1787.