Delmar Jockey Club v. Missouri

Citations

• 210 U.S. 324
• 28 S. Ct. 732
• 52 L. Ed. 1080
• 1908 U.S. LEXIS 1511

Syllabus

<p>Even if the state court erred in a proceeding over which it has. exclusive jurisdiction such error would not afford a basis for reviewing its judgment in this court.</p> <p>The mere assertion by plaintiff in error that the judgment of the state court deprived him of his property by unequal enforcement of the law in violation of Federal immunities specially set up does not create a Federal question where there is no ground for such a contention, and the state court followed its conception of the rules of pleading as expounded in its previous décisions.</p> <p>Where the asserted Federal questions are so plainly devoid of merit as not to constitute a basis for the writ of error the writ will be dismissed.</p> <p>Whether a Missouri corporation has forfeited its charter by nonuser and misuser under the law of the State does not involve á Federal question, and a proceeding regularly brought by the Attorney General in tht nature of quo warranto constitutes due process of law. New Orleans Waterworks v. Louisiana, 185 U. S. 336.</p> <p>Writ of error to review, 200 Missouri, 34, dismissed.</p>