Kirwan v. Murphy
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EÍGHTH CIRCUIT. Simon J. Murphy and others filed a bill against P. H. Kir wan, as United States Surveyor General for the District of Minnesota, and Thomas H. Gross well, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota, which alleged in- substance that complainants were the owners of certain lands on the shores of Cedar Island Lake, in St. Louis' County, Minnesota, specifically described in the bill ;•…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EÍGHTH CIRCUIT. Simon J. Murphy and others filed a bill against P. H. Kir wan, as United States Surveyor General for the District of Minnesota, and Thomas H. Gross well, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota, which alleged in- substance that complainants were the owners of certain lands on the shores of Cedar Island Lake, in St. Louis' County, Minnesota, specifically described in the bill ;• that the township in which the lands lie was surveyed in 1876, and the survey approved by the United States -Surveyor…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
By the sixth section of the act of March 3, 1891, c. 517, 20 Stat. 826, the judgments or decrees of the Circuit Courts of Appeals are made final iii that court in the classes of cases, therein enumerated, of which the present is not one, and it is provided that in all cases not. made final, there shall be of -right, within one year an appeal or .writ of error or review of the case .by this court, where the matter in controversy exceeds one thousand dollars exclusive of costs.
But this applies only to final orders, judgments or decrees. Young v. Grundy, 6 Cranch, 51; Keystone Iron Company v.…
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