Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1874
Insurance Company v. Morse - 87 U.S. 445 (1874) U.S. Supreme Court Insurance Company v. Morse, 87 U.S. 20 Wall. 445 445 (1874) Insurance Company v. Morse 87 U.S. (20 Wall.) 445 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN Syllabus 1. The Constitution of the United States secures to citizens of another state than that in which suit is brought an absolute right to remove their cases into the federal court upon compliance with the terms of the twelfth section of the Judiciary Act. 2. The obstruction to this right imposed by a statute of a state, which enacts "That any fire insurance company, association, or partnership, incorporated by or organized under the laws of any other state of the United States desiring to transact any such business as aforesaid by any agent or agents in this state shall first appoint an attorney in this state on whom process of law can be served, containing an agreement that such company will not remove the suit for trial into the United States circuit cou...
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Decided on : Jan-01-1874
Gregory v. McVeigh - 90 U.S. 294 (1874) U.S. Supreme Court Gregory v. McVeigh, 90 U.S. 23 Wall. 294 294 (1874) Gregory v. McVeigh 90 U.S. (23 Wall.) 294 ON MOTION TO DISMISS, FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION, A WRIT OF ERROR TO THE CORPORATION COURT OF ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA Syllabus 1. Where, by the laws of a state, an appeal can be taken from an inferior court of the state to the highest court of the same only with leave of this latter or of a judge thereof, and that leave has been refused in any particular case, in the regular order of proceeding -- the refusal not being the subject of appeal to this Court -- a writ of error, if there be in the case a "federal question," properly lies, under section 709 of the Revised Statutes, to the inferior court, and not to the highest one. 2. A federal question exists when -- in a suit by a person who seeks to recover property on the ground that a judgment and execution on it by a court of the United States, interpreting a statute of the United...
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