Preston v. City of Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of this court to review judgments of the state court by writ of error, are stated, in the opinion. . If the decision of the state court is upon grounds broad enough to support the judgment independent of any Federal question, there is no Federal issue involved in the case so as to give this court- jurisdiction and it will not entertain a writ of error.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of this court to review judgments of the state court by writ of error, are stated, in the opinion. . If the decision of the state court is upon grounds broad enough to support the judgment independent of any Federal question, there is no Federal issue involved in the case so as to give this court- jurisdiction and it will not entertain a writ of error. Rutland Railroad Co. v. Central Vermont R. R. Co., 159 U. S. 630; Moran, v. Horsky, 178 U. S.' -205; Pittsburgh Iron Có. v.- Cleveland Iron Min. Co.,…
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum opinion, by direction of the court, by
Mr. Chief Justice.White.
Upon the assertion that he had been' wrongfully dropped “from'the pay roll of the policemen of the City of Chicago,” plaintiff in error commenced proceedings in man damus in the state court to compel the placing of his name upon the. said pay rolls to the end that he might •thereafter draw the. pay alleged to be-due him as a police pátrolman “as the other police patrolmen in said city of Chicago are paid.” This writ of error is prosecuted to a judgment of the Supreme Court of Illinois (246 Illinois, 26); affirming a…
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