Powell v. Brunswick County
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE APPEALS OE THE STATE OE VIRGINIA. Motion to dismiss. This was a, bill of complaint filed by R. S. Powell and fourteen others, resident citizens and taxpayers of the county of Brunswick, suing on behalf of themselves and all other citizens and taxpayers of the county, making themselves parties, March 25, 1889, in the Circuit-Court of the county of Brunswick, in the.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE APPEALS OE THE STATE OE VIRGINIA. Motion to dismiss. This was a, bill of complaint filed by R. S. Powell and fourteen others, resident citizens and taxpayers of the county of Brunswick, suing on behalf of themselves and all other citizens and taxpayers of the county, making themselves parties, March 25, 1889, in the Circuit-Court of the county of Brunswick, in the. State of Virginia, against the board of supervisors of that county and the Atlantic and Danville Railway Company, to enjoin the disposition of certain bonds of the county, theretofore issued to the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The determination of the jurisdiction of this court to review the'judgment of a state court under section seven hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes necessarily devolves upon the court itself, and, while the certificate of the presiding judge of the state court as to the existence of the state of case upon which our interposition may be successfully invoked is always regarded with respect, it cannot confer jurisdiction upon this court to reexamine-the judgment below. Lawler v. Walker, 14 How. 149 ; Railway Company v. Rock, 4 Wall. 477 ; Parmelee v. Lawrence, 11 Wall. 36 ; Caperton v.…
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