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Supreme Court judgment in DRED SCOTT V. JOHN F.A. SANFORD
1857
Courtesy of National Archives, Old Military and Civil Records (LICON)
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Dred Scott sued for his freedom in a Circuit Court in St. Louis, Missouri. Scott won his case. However, in the judgment of the Supreme Court, written by Chief Justice Taney, the verdict was reversed and the case sent back to Circuit Court. Taney's opinion on the matter declared that blacks were not citizens and were not guaranteed protection of the federal government or courts.
No. 7
Dred Scott, [Plantiff in Error]
vs
John F. A. Sandford
In error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri --
This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri and was argued by counsel -- on consideration whereof, it is now here ordered and adjudged by this court that the judgment of the said Circuit Court in this cause be and the same is hereby reversed for the want of jurisdiction in that court and that this cause be and the same is hereby remanded to the said Circuit Court with directions to discuss the case for the want of jurisdiction in that court.-
[Chief Justice Roger B. Taney]
6th March 1857
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