Legal Opinion
Hoffman v. McClelland
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 21, 1924No. 190PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court for the Western District of Texas refusing leave to file a bill proffered as a petition of intervention in a designated suit in that court. The appeal was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals and was by that court transferred here according to § 238a of the Judicial Code, c. 305, 42 Stat. 837, on the ground that it should have been taken directly to this Court under § 238. 284 Fed. 837.
The suit in which intervention was sought already had been prosecuted to a final decree; but the decree contained a provision whereby jurisdiction was…
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- Compton v. JesupCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1895
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