Petri v. F. E. Creelman Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Plaintiffs in error, suing as aliens and residents of Ant-' werp, Belgium, commenced this action in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois, to recover damages for an alleged libel'. Two Illinois corporations and a number of persons were made, defendants.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Plaintiffs in error, suing as aliens and residents of Ant-' werp, Belgium, commenced this action in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois, to recover damages for an alleged libel'. Two Illinois corporations and a number of persons were made, defendants. The bill as to the corporations alleged citizenship in-Illinois, and, as'to all the defendants, except the Creel-man Lumber Company and F. E. Creelman, one of the individual defendants, the bill…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Jxjstiqe White,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
A motion to dismiss the writ of error first requires our1 attention. It is urged that the writ should be dismissed because the bill of exceptions filed below and the certificate made as to the question of jurisdiction on this writ of error were authenticated by a judge other liban the trial judge, and further, because the certificate was not made at the term in which the judgment complained of was entered. We are relieved, however, from the necessity of considering these objections, for the reason that…
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