New York Central Rd. Co. v. Francis

The jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals to entertain the proceeding in error in this case and render judgment therein was duly challenged by counsel for the defendant in error in that court, and that is the primary question presented by the record.

Some four months after the petition in error was filed in the Court of Appeals, that court, upon application of counsel for plaintiff in error, remanded the cause to the court of common pleas, not for the purpose of making a correction in the record as to any fact which had occurred upon the trial, or with reference to the proceeding in any…