American Construction Co. v. Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. These were two petitions to this court, each praying, in the alternative, for a writ of mandamus, or a writ of certiorari, to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In the first case, No. 14, it appeared that the following proceedings were had in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida.
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ORIGINAL. These were two petitions to this court, each praying, in the alternative, for a writ of mandamus, or a writ of certiorari, to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In the first case, No. 14, it appeared that the following proceedings were had in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida. On July 6, 1892, the American Construction Company, a ■corporation of Illinois, and a stockholder in the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Kailway Company, a corporation of Florida, engaged in operating a railroad in that State, filed a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
By the Constitution of the United States, in cases to which the judicial power of the United States extends, and of which original jurisdiction is not conferred oh this court, “the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.”, Constitution, art. 3, sec. 2. This court, therefore, as it has always held, can exercise- no appellate jurisdiction, except .in the cases, and in the manner and form, defined and prescribed by Congress. Wiscart v. Dauchy, 3 Dall. 321, 227; Durousseau v. United States, 6 Cranch, 307, 314;…
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