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Seattle, Renton & Southern Ry. Co. v. Linhoff, 231 U.S. 568 (1913)
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Seattle, Renton & Southern Ry. Co. v. Linhoff, 231 U.S. 568 (1913)
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Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Company v. Linhoff No. 107 Argued December 9, 1913 Decided December 22, 1913 231 U.S. 568
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
Syllabus
This Court does not sit to revise the construction of documents by the state courts, even if alleged to be contracts within the protection of the federal Constitution. Fisher v. New Orleans, 218 U.S. 438. It takes more than a misconstruction by the state court to make a case under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The state court, and not this Court, is the judge of its own jurisdiction. This Court will not hold that the state court had no jurisdiction to determine rights under an ordinance because it had been superseded by a later ordinance when the latter does not appear in the record and the highest court of the state has held in another case that it doe not affect the case at issue.
Writ of error to renew 62 Wash. 544 dismissed.
The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of this Court to review judgments of the state courts, are stated in the opinion.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Seattle, Renton & Southern Ry. Co. v. Linhoff, 231 U.S. 568 (1913) in 231 U.S. 568 231 U.S. 569. Original Sources, accessed November 24, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=TQMHXQUL1KME367.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Seattle, Renton & Southern Ry. Co. v. Linhoff, 231 U.S. 568 (1913), in 231 U.S. 568, page 231 U.S. 569. Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=TQMHXQUL1KME367.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Seattle, Renton & Southern Ry. Co. v. Linhoff, 231 U.S. 568 (1913). cited in 1913, 231 U.S. 568, pp.231 U.S. 569. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=TQMHXQUL1KME367.
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