Holden Land & Live Stock Co. v. Inter-State Trading Co.

Citations

• 233 U.S. 536
• 34 S. Ct. 661
• 58 L. Ed. 1083
• 1914 U.S. LEXIS 1220

Syllabus

<p>Where the judgment of the state court rests upon an independent or non-Federal ground which is adequate to sustain it, this court has not jurisdiction to review it.</p> <p>Where, as in this case, the decision of the state court involves simply the exercise of the equitable jurisdiction in accordance with the jurisprudence of the State, the ruling which prescribes the conditions of relief is not reviewable by this court.</p> <p>In this case held that the decision that a party seéking to redeem lands might do so on equitable grounds only and on the equitable condition that he pay the debt with legal interest, rested on a non-Federal ground sufficient to sustain it and was not reviewable here.</p>