Allen v. Southern Pacific Railroad

Citations

• 173 U.S. 479
• 19 S. Ct. 518
• 43 L. Ed. 775
• 1899 U.S. LEXIS 1454

Syllabus

<p>The sixth section of the act of March 3, 1891, c. 517, did not change the limit of two years as regards cases which could be taken from Circuit and District Courts of the United States to this court, and that act did not operate to reduce the time in which writs of error could issue from this court to state courts.</p> <p>As a reference to the opinion of the Supreme Court.of California makes patent the fact that that court rested its decision solely upon the construction of the contract between the parties to this action which forms its subject, and decided the case wholly independent of the Federal questions now set up; and as the decree of the court below was adequately sustained by such independent, non-Federal question, it follows that no issue is presented on the record which this court has power to review.</p>