Snell v. Dwight
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petitions that in each of these cases (which are reported 120 Mass. 9, 285) the record might be amended so as to show “the questions decided by this court, under the laws of the United States, adversely to the plaintiff, and on which the decision of this court, dismissing the bill, is grounded ”—to the end that the plaintiff might be enabled to take the case by writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Petitions that in each of these cases (which are reported 120 Mass. 9, 285) the record might be amended so as to show “the questions decided by this court, under the laws of the United States, adversely to the plaintiff, and on which the decision of this court, dismissing the bill, is grounded ”—to the end that the plaintiff might be enabled to take the case by writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States. Each case was a suit in equity for an account of an alleged partnership, which was denied in the answer. The illegality of the transaction alleged in the bill was also, in the…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
To sustain the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States to revise, by writ of error, a final judgment or decree of the highest court of a state, such judgment or decree must have necessarily involved a decision against a right claimed under the Constitution, laws or treaties of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the point decided must distinctly appear upon the record. U. S. Rev. Sts. § 709. Maxwell v. Newbold, 18 How. 511. Boggs v. Mining Co. 3 Wall. 304. Railroad Co. v. Rock, 4 Wall. 177. The ground of the decision, upon a question raised by the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Edwards v. ElliottSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- Williams v. NorrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1827
- ARMSTRONG v. the Treasurer of Athens CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1842
- Flanders v. TweedSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
- Railroad Company v. RockSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Churchill v. ChurchillMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
- New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. T. Stuart & Son Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
- Abbott v. BeanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Corbett v. CravenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Merrill v. BeckwithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
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