Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Skillern's Executors v. May's Executors
Skillern's Ex’[r, x]s v. May's Ex’[r, x]s, 3 L. Ed. 220 (1810)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1810-03-18
- Topic
- general
providing that once issues are finally decided by a higher court, the lower court must follow such a mandate | once issues finally decided, lower court has no choice but to follow mandate
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- 59 opinions
This court, after consideration, directed the following opinion to be certified to the court below, viz.
*268 “ ^ aPPearS that the merits of this canse had been finally decided in this court, and that its mandate required only the execution of its decree, it is the opinion of this court that the circuit court is bound to carry that decree into execution, although the. jurisdiction of that court be not alleged i'n the pleadings.”