Clerke v. Harwood
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 11, 1797
Full case nameClerke v. Harwood
Citations3 U.S. 342 (more)
3 Dall. 342; 1 L. Ed. 628
Court membership
Chief Justice
Oliver Ellsworth
Associate Justices
James Wilson · William Cushing
James Iredell · William Paterson
Samuel Chase

Clerke v. Harwood, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 342 (1797), was a United States Supreme Court case that followed the court's decision in Ware v. Hylton, concerning debts owed to British subjects. In the Ware case, the Supreme Court had reversed a decision by the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, and restored the decision of a Maryland trial court.

In the Clerke case, the Supreme Court considered what should happen to cases presenting a similar question, once the holding of their appeals-court decision had been reversed. Should they be sent back to the Maryland Court of Appeals, or directly back to the trial court? The Supreme Court also considered who should pay the court costs incurred before the Maryland Court of Appeals—the winner before that court, whose victory had since been reversed, or the ultimate winner of the entire case?

In a short per curiam opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the case should be sent directly back to the Maryland trial court, with the ultimate losing party paying all court costs, even before the Maryland Court of Appeals, where it had won a temporary victory.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Curtis, Benjamin Robbins; Dallas, Alexander James; Cranch, William; Court, United States Supreme; Wheaton, Henry; Peters, Richard; Howard, Benjamin Chew (1870). Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States. Little, Brown.


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