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{{Infobox SCOTUS case
|Litigants=Mossman v. Higginson
|DecideDate=August 11
|DecideYear=1800
|FullName=Mossman v. Higginson
|USVol=4
|USPage=12
|ParallelCitations=4 [[Alexander J. Dallas (statesman)|Dall.]] 12; 1 [[L. Ed.]] 720; 1800 [[U.S. LEXIS]] 298
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|Holding="The parties to an equity suit must be so described on the record as to show that the court has jurisdiction. It is not enough that an alien is a party; the other party must be a citizen. A writ of error may be amended by filling the blank left for the return day, there being enough on the writ to amend by."
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'''''Mossman v. Higginson''''', 4 U.S. (4 Dall.) 12 (1800), was an 1800 decision of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] asserting that "The parties to an equity suit must be so described on the record as to show that the court has jurisdiction. It is not enough that an alien is a party; the other party must be a citizen. A writ of error may be amended by filling the blank left for the return day, there being enough on the writ to amend by."<ref>Reports of decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States: with notes and a digest, Volume 1 (Little, Brown, 1887), pg. 313 [https://books.google.com/books?id=CR08AAAAIAAJ]</ref>
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| case = ''Mossman v. Higginson'', {{ussc|4|12|1800|Dall.|4|el=no}}
| justia =https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/4/12/
| loc =http://cdn.loc.gov/service/ll/usrep/usrep004/usrep004012/usrep004012.pdf
| openjurist =https://openjurist.org/4/us/12
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[[Category:United States Supreme Court cases]]
[[Category:United States Supreme Court cases of the Ellsworth Court]]
[[Category:1800 in United States case law]]