Leonard v. City of Shreveport

All the parties to this suit are citizens of Louisiana. The question raised by the plea to the jurisdiction presents this inquiry, do the allegations in the petition show that a federal question will have to be passed on, by way of claim or defense, before an exi-gible judgment can be given by the court trying the suit ? The rule governing the jurisdictional power of the circuit court to hear or try all federal questions, concurrently with the state courts, is fixed by repeated decisions of the supreme court. As to the rule, it has been said: “If a part of a case turns on a federal law, the…