Jacobs v. Marks
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE ILLINOIS. In June, 1896, Dora Marks brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County, Illinois, against Lewis Jacobs, for false representations and deceit whereby' the plaintiff had been induced to become a member of a corporation known "as the Chicago Furniture and Lumber-Company of Escanaba, Michigan, composed of said Jacobs and one Nathan Neufeldt, and to pay into such concern the sum of $5000. The plaintiff sought to…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE ILLINOIS. In June, 1896, Dora Marks brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County, Illinois, against Lewis Jacobs, for false representations and deceit whereby' the plaintiff had been induced to become a member of a corporation known "as the Chicago Furniture and Lumber-Company of Escanaba, Michigan, composed of said Jacobs and one Nathan Neufeldt, and to pay into such concern the sum of $5000. The plaintiff sought to recover in this action the money so expended by her, alleging that the shares of stock so taken by her in said company were…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shiras
The plaintiff in error alleges error in the action-of the Illinois courts in failing to give full faith and credit to the judicial record and proceedings of the circuit court of Delta County, Michigan.
A contention is made on behalf of the defendant in error that the decision of the state Supreme Court did not rest on a Federal question, and that, hence, under the doctrine of Seeberger v. McCormick, 175 U. S. 274, and cases therein cited, we have no jurisdiction to review it.
JBut the record discloses that, at the trial in the circuit court of Cook County, the defendant, after having put in…
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