National Compress Co. v. Hamlin

Should the court’s long-established practice be followed, no written opinions would be filed in disposing of the applications for writs of error in the above-styled causes. The questions presented by these applications, however, are typical of so great a number which are constantly brought here for review that we have deemed it important to state the questions and the grounds for the conclusions that they are without or within the court’s jurisdiction.

The first application is in a suit where defendant in error, Hamlin, recovered a judgment of plaintiff in error, National Compress Company, for…