Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA. Appeal from, a decree of the District Court which dismissed a bill for want of jurisdiction.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
delivered the.opinion of the Court.-
This is a bill in equity to have a judgment of a circuit court in Indiana, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State, declared null and void, and to obtain other relief dependent on that outcome. An effort to have the judgment reviewed by this Court' on writ of error had failed because the record did not disclose the presence of any question constituting a basis for such a review. Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co., 261 U. S. 114. The parties to the bill are the same as in the litigation in the state court, but with an addition of two defendants whose…
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