Jones v. Buffalo Creek Coal & Coke Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brandeis
This is an action of ejectment brought by the Buffalo Creek Coal & Coke Company in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia. Jurisdiction of- that court was invoked solely on the ground of diversity of citizenship. A verdict was.directed for the plaintiff below; and the case was brought here by direct writ of error, defendants below claiming that, by the action of the lower court, they have been deprived of their property without due process of law in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Federal Constitution.
Plaintiff below set up…
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