Cotter v. Alabama G. S. R.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee. This was an action by William Cotter, administrator of John T. Cotter, deceased, against the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, for damages for the death of said John T. Cotter. At the trial the court directed a verdict for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
LURTON, Circuit Judge.
This cause came on first to be heard upon the motion of the appellee to strike the case from the docket for the want of a writ of error, and the motion of the appellant to be allowed to amend the writ of error by having the seal of the court placed thereon.
This court can have no jurisdiction to review a cause decided in the circuit court unless it has been brought here in substantial conformity to some act of congress. Castro v. U. S., 3 Wall. 46. A writ of error has been defined by the supreme court, speaking-through Chief Justice Marshall, as “a commission by which…
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