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· 4/17/1939

Atlas Life Insurance v. W. I. Southern, Inc.

Citations

  • 306 U.S. 563
  • 59 S. Ct. 657
  • 83 L. Ed. 987
  • 1939 U.S. LEXIS 979

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  • noting that unlike federal subject matter jurisdiction, “the parties may waive their objections to the equity jurisdiction by consent, or by failure to take it seasonably”
  • “[T]he certified questions are incapable of categorical answer and the questions which they suggest can be properly answered only by reframing the questions certified or giving qualified answers to them. This we are not required to do_”
  • “Unlike the objection that the court is without jurisdiction as a federal court, the parties may waive their objections to the equity jurisdiction by consent or by failure to take it seasonably.” (citations omitted)

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Judges: Stone

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