Continental Insurance v. Rhoads
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR:TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES’ ,POR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OP PENNSYLVANIA. This was an action at law against the plaintiff in error,, defendant below, brought by the .defendant in error as ad-ministratrix of Maris Rhoads, deceased, to recover on a policy of life insurance. • The allegations in the declaration, material to .the point decided by the court, were the following: “ Arm.
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ERROR:TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES’ ,POR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OP PENNSYLVANIA. This was an action at law against the plaintiff in error,, defendant below, brought by the .defendant in error as ad-ministratrix of Maris Rhoads, deceased, to recover on a policy of life insurance. • The allegations in the declaration, material to .the point decided by the court, were the following: “ Arm. Eliza Rhoads, administratrix, &c., of Maris Rhoads, late a citizen of the State of Pennsylvania, deceased, complains’ of the Continental Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, a foreign…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief 'Justice-Waite
delivered the opinión of the -.court.
‘ One of the errors assigned on this record is that thp Circuit ' Court had no jurisdiction. It was. settled at a very early day that the facts on which the jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts rest must, in some form, appear on the face- of the record of. all suits prosecuted before them. Turner v. Bank of North America, 4 Dall. 8; Bushnell v. Kennedy, 9 Wall. 387; Hornthall v. Collector, 9 Wall. 560;. Ex parte Smith, 94 U. S. 455; Robertson, v. Cease, 97 U. S. 646; Grace v. American Central Ins. Co., 109 U. S. 278, 283; Börs v.…
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