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Williamson v. Berry

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
49 U.S. 495
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
6 of 6
Citing cases (total)
6
Treatment dates
1861
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Williamson v. Berry was overruled in part: all 6 flagged citations have been read, with the 1 confirmed treatment listed below. Suydam v. Williamson rejected Williamson's conclusion about title to the Clarke property because New York's courts had settled the same title question in the opposite direction.
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It reversed the federal judgment against the purchaser. Williamson's other propositions about special statutory jurisdiction and collateral attacks on judgments were applied by later courts.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

6 later cases cite Williamson v. Berry; 6 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in Part

  • The Supreme Court rejected Williamson's conclusion about title to the Clarke property after New York's courts settled the same title question in the opposite direction.

    Suydam v. Williamson · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    The plaintiffs impugn the proceeding- under which the conveyance to McIntyre was' made, and the sufficiency of the consideration to support the conveyance. They contend that every •material question in this case is res judicata in this court, having been adjudged in the cases of Williamson v. Berry, 8 How., 495, 549, Williams v. the Irish Presbyterian Church, 8 How., 565, and Williamson v. Ball, 8 How., 566. ... The majority of this court were convinced that the questions might be examined anew, and their answers were accordant with the opinion of the minority in the court of errors. But in the present case there is no room for doubt as to what the settled opinion of the courts of New York is in reference to this title, and therefore no occasion for any. hesitation concerning the obligation we have to perform. The Circuit Court decided adversely to the defendant. Its-judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings.
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