Beals v. Cone

Syllabus

<p>There is no general right to a writ of error from this court to the courts of a State; nor does the mere fact that the action was brought under sections 2325 and 2326 of the Revised Statutes in support of'an adverse claim, entitle the defeated party to a writ of error to the state court.. There is but a special right to bring such cases, and such cases only, as disclose a Federal question distinctly ruled adversely to the plaintiff in error. Where no title, right, privilege or immunity of a Federal nature was set up and claimed, nor the validity of any Federal statute denied in the state court, nor the validity of any state statute challenged prior to the judgment of affirmance in the highest court of the State, on the ground of its repugnance to paramount Federal law, this court is not justified in taking jurisdiction.</p> <p>Generally speaking estoppel and res judicata present questions of local, and not of Federal, law.</p>