Vandenbark v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co.

Mr. : Justice Reed

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This certiorari brings before us for review the determination of the Circuit Court of Appeals that cases at law sounding in tort, brought in the federal courts on thé ground of diversity of citizenship, are'ruled by the state law as declared by the state’s highest court when the judgment of the trial court is entered and not by the state law as so declared at thé time of entry of the appellate court’s order of affirmance or reversal. We: granted the certiorari because of the uncertainty of the: law upon this question as contained in this…