Israel v. Arthur
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF COLORADO. Motion to dismiss. Abbie A: Israel, under the name of Abbie ■ A. Arthur, filed her petition in the county court of • Laramie County, Colorado, in the matter of the estate of John Arthur, deceased, May 1Y, 1881, alleging that John Arthur died intestate and without children; that -she was his widow; that James B. Arthur had been appointed administrator and was in possession of decedent’s property, and committing breaches of…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF COLORADO. Motion to dismiss. Abbie A: Israel, under the name of Abbie ■ A. Arthur, filed her petition in the county court of • Laramie County, Colorado, in the matter of the estate of John Arthur, deceased, May 1Y, 1881, alleging that John Arthur died intestate and without children; that -she was his widow; that James B. Arthur had been appointed administrator and was in possession of decedent’s property, and committing breaches of his duty as such; that he, as a brother of John Arthur, and certain other brothers and sisters, and descendants of a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
It is not sufficient for the maintenance of our jurisdiction to review the judgments of state courts, that a right, title, privilege, or immunity under the Constitution of the United States may have been claimed, but such right, title, privilege, or immunity must have been denied. Assuming that plaintiff in error, by her replication of January 27, 1891, duly set up a right of protection under the Constitution, yet if she were debarred from asserting property rights in the estate of John Arthur, as his widow, then that right was not denied for want of the subject-matter to be protected.
• The…
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