Newman v. Gates
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OP INDIANA.. Jacob Newman, George Northrop, Jr., and S. 0. Levinson commenced this action in the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, against the defendant in error, Harry B. Gates. Recovery of the sum of $1,400 was sought upon a judgment obtained by Newman and his co-plaintiffs against Gates in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OP INDIANA.. Jacob Newman, George Northrop, Jr., and S. 0. Levinson commenced this action in the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, against the defendant in error, Harry B. Gates. Recovery of the sum of $1,400 was sought upon a judgment obtained by Newman and his co-plaintiffs against Gates in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The defendant filed an answer in two paragraphs, but as the defenses therein asserted were ultimately abandoned they need not be detailed. A counterclaim was also filed, in which it was alleged that the plaintiffs…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
A motion has been filed to dismiss the writ of error or to affirm, and we proceed at once to its consideration. Several grounds are urgqd in argument in support of the motion,' ffiut we do not find it necessary to do more than consider an objection based upon the absence of a Federal question.
The errors assigned are as follows:
“The Supreme Court of Indiana erred in holding and deciding:
“1. That the counterclaim set up by appellee Gates, the defendant, in the trial court, based upon a breach of the same contract of hiring, which was the basis of the action of the appellants against the…
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