Bradford v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE' FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. ' This case is brought here on the following certificate: “This was an action of tort. . The plaintiff was a citizen of Tennessee, and the defendant a corporation organized under the laws of Virginia. The jurisdiction of the court below was wholly dependent upon diversity of citizenship. There was a jury and verdict against the plaintiff in error and a judgment accordingly.
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CERTIFICATE' FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. ' This case is brought here on the following certificate: “This was an action of tort. . The plaintiff was a citizen of Tennessee, and the defendant a corporation organized under the laws of Virginia. The jurisdiction of the court below was wholly dependent upon diversity of citizenship. There was a jury and verdict against the plaintiff in error and a judgment accordingly. “The plaintiff in error sued out this writ-of error, and has ■ lodged with the clerk of this court, within the time required by law, a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
1. After the passage of. the act of July 20,1892, many applications were made to this court for leave to prosecute writs- of error or appeals in forma pauperis, and were uniformly denied, as we were of opinion that the act had no relation to proceedings in this court. And we so stated in Gallaway v. Fort Worth Bank, 186 U. S. 177, where leave was asked to prosecute a writ of error to a state court without giving security as required by section 1000 of the Revised Statutes. The ruling would have been the same if the review of the judgment or decree of a court of the United States had been…
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