Legal Opinion
Meredith v. Winter Haven
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 8, 1943No. 42PublishedCited by 691 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Stone
Petitioners sought a judgment granting equitable relief in the District Court below, whose jurisdiction rested solely on diversity of citizenship. The question is whether the Circuit Court of Appeals, on appeal from the judgment of the District Court, rightly declined to exercise its jurisdiction on the ground that decision of the case on the merits turned on questions of Florida constitutional and statutory law which the decisions of the Florida courts had left in a state of uncertainty.
Petitioners brought this suit in the District Court for Southern Florida, alleging by their bill of…
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