Legal Opinion

Fowler v. Lamson

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 30, 1896No. 83PublishedCited by 6 opinions

ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. The case is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peokham

The printed record which is before this court in this case is so fragmentary in its nature as to leave no foundation for us to even guess that there was a Federal question in the case or that it was decided by the state court against the right now set up by plaintiffs in error.

The record opens with an assignment of errors which it is alleged were made by the Supreme Court of Illinois, and fourteen grounds of error are set forth, many of them setting up that such court, by the judgment in suit, erred in the decision of several Federal questions. Then follows the writ of error. Then comes what…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Eustis v. BollesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  2. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  3. California Powder Works v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  4. Simmerman v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1885

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Harding v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
  2. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. McDonaldSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
  3. Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. v. McGuireSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
  4. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. WarrenSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1928
  5. Chappell Chemical & Fertilizer Co. v. Sulphur Mines Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1899

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