Sullivan v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE THIRD SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. ' This case comes to us from a state court and our jurisdiction is invoked on the ground of a law of the State charged to work an impairment of the obligation of a contract.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE THIRD SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. ' This case comes to us from a state court and our jurisdiction is invoked on the ground of a law of the State charged to work an impairment of the obligation of a contract. The facts are that in 1834 the Mexican State of Tamaulipas granted to Pedro de la Garza a tract of land.' The grant, signed by the governor, recited that the grantee had paid the appraised value, $204; that the grant contained' "six and a half leagues of pasture land for large cattle, comprehended in the .boundaries, angles…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
By the action of the Supreme Court of the State the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals became the judgment of the highest court in the State to which the case could be taken, and hence the writ of error properly ran to that court. The constitutional question, although not raised theretofore, was distinctly presented in the petition to the Court -of Civil Appeals for a rehearing, was considered by that court and decided adversely to the plaintiff in error. This court, therefore, has -jurisdiction. Mallett v. North Carolina, 181 U. S. 589, 592; Leigh v. Green, 193 U. S. 79; French v.…
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