Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Volume 30

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Gilbert Book Company, 1889
 

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Página 323 - Certainly, in the granting of injunctions, which is not a matter of right, but rests in the sound discretion of the court...
Página 174 - CLIFFORD, delivering the opinion of the court, said "it is quite certain that neither an injunction nor a decree dissolving an injunction passed in a circuit court is reversed or nullified by an appeal or writ of error before the cause is heard in this court...
Página 338 - ... had become a rule of property, cannot constitute a Federal question as to the impairment of the obligation of a contract, for which a writ of error will lie from the Supreme Court of the United States to a state court.
Página 147 - On the whole, the court are of opinion that the appellate power of the United States does extend to cases pending in the state courts, and that the 25th section of the judiciary act, which authorizes the exercise of this jurisdiction in the specified cases, by a writ of error, is supported by the letter and spirit of the Constitution.
Página 99 - ... plaintiffs in error in each writ gave several appeal bonds. The court overruled a motion to dismiss the cause : the ground of the motion being that but one writ of error could be sued out, and that all the defendants should have united in the same. Cox Sf Dix v.
Página 331 - ... be produced if its property had been subjected to a single ad valorem tax. The pleas bring in question the validity of our statute, and aver its conflict with the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States. The record presents a federal question, and we acknowledge ourselves bound to follow the decisions of the court of last resort of the United States, if that court shall be found to have adjudicated it. Our difficulty arises from our inability to say with confidence...
Página 147 - States canuot in .this manner confer on an inanimate object, without sense, or reason, or legal capacity, the right to prosecute legal proceedings in the Federal courts.
Página 99 - If the circuit court dismiss a writ of error for want of jurisdiction, a •writ of error will not lie from the supreme court to the circuit court.
Página 582 - New Orleans City R Co. v. Crescent City R Co., 12 Fed.
Página 385 - Atlantic & P. Tel. Co. v. Chicago, RI & PR Co., 6 Biss. 158, Fed.

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