Hoyt v. Shelden, Ex'r of Thompson, and the Long Island Railroad Company
Supreme Court of the United States
In error to the Superior Court of the city of Ne'w Yoih. This was a writ of error to the Superior Court of the city of New York, “being possessed of tbe record and proceedings upon a remittitur from tbe Court of Appeals of the State of New York.”
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In error to the Superior Court of the city of Ne'w Yoih. This was a writ of error to the Superior Court of the city of New York, “being possessed of tbe record and proceedings upon a remittitur from tbe Court of Appeals of the State of New York.” It was a bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, by Jesse Hoyt, the plaintiff in error, against Abraham G. Thompson, George B. Fisk, the Long Island Railroad Company, and the Statutory Representatives of the State of Michigan. All the defendants except the representatives of the State of Michigan demurred. ■ The demurrers…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This being a writ of error directed to a State court, it is incumbent upon the plaintiff, in order to giye jurisdiction to this court, to show that one of the questions enumerated in the. twenty-fifth section of the act of Congress of 1789, Oh. 20, arose at the trial, and that a right he, claimed under the Constitution of the United States, or an act of Congress, was decided against him.
In the argument here, he alleges that the construction'and effect of, the first section of the fourth article of the Constitution was drawn in question, and th,e right to the property in disputé, Which he…
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