Shumaker v. Security Life & Annuity Co. of America
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
Section 6 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, by which this court was established, vested in it “jurisdiction to review, by appeal or by writ of error, final decisions”; but neither that statute nor any other has given it jurisdiction to review an interlocutory order refusing judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Morris v. Dunbar, 149 Fed. 406, 79 C. C. A. 226; McLish v. Roff, 141 U. S. 665, 12 Sup. Ct. 118, 35 L. Ed. 893; Railway Co. v. Roberts, 141 U. S. 690, 12 Sup. Ct. 123, 35 L. Ed. 902; Webster Coal & C. Co. v. Cassatt (decided December 2,…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- McLish v. RoffSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Amy v. WatertownSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. v. RobertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Ætna Ins. v. ConferSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
- Ensign ex rel. Paine v. KindredSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
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