California Powder Works v. Davis
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR. TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE CALIFORNIA. This was a suit in equity brought by Isaac E. Davis, for whom his administrator, 'Willis E. Davis, was duly substituted, and Henry Cowell, against the California Powder Works in the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District of California in and for the city and county of San Francisco, and subsequently transferred to the Superior Court of said city and county, to quiet plaintiffs’ title to certain lands in Santa…
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ERROR. TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE CALIFORNIA. This was a suit in equity brought by Isaac E. Davis, for whom his administrator, 'Willis E. Davis, was duly substituted, and Henry Cowell, against the California Powder Works in the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District of California in and for the city and county of San Francisco, and subsequently transferred to the Superior Court of said city and county, to quiet plaintiffs’ title to certain lands in Santa Cruz County, California. Both parties claimed title under •patent from the United States; plaintiffs, through Pedro…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
It is axiomatic that, in order to give this court jurisdiction on writ of error to the highest court of .a State, in which a decision in the suit could be had, it must appear affirmatively not only that a Federal question was presented for decision by the highest court of the State having jurisdiction, but that its-decision was necessary to the determination of the cause, and that it was actually decided or that the judgment as rendered could not have been given without deciding it. And where the decision complained of rests on an.'independent ground, not involving a Federal question and.…
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