Legal Opinion

Storm v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 18, 1877No. 23PublishedCited by 76 opinions

Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of California. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clefeord

Errors of the Circuit Court resting in parol cannot be re-examined in this court by writ of error. Instead of that, the writ of error addresses itself to the record; and the rule is, that, whenever the error is apparent in the record, whether it be made to appear by bill of exceptions, an ■ agreed statement of facts, or by demurrer, the error-is open to re-examination and correction.

Whatever error of the court is apparent in the record, whether it be in the foundation, proceedings, judgment, or execution of the suit, may be re-examined and corrected; but neither the rulings of the court in…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Suydam v. WilliamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1858
  2. Slacum v. PomerySupreme Court of the United States · 1810
  3. Jackson ex dem. Pintard v. BodleNew York Supreme Court · 1822
  4. Wyman v. RichardsonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1874

3Cited by76 opinions

  1. Alford v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  2. Hewitt v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1940
  3. Marie v. . GarrisonNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
  4. Bracey v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1944
  5. Robert Lee Skinner v. Harold J. Cardwell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1977

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