Interior Construction & Improvement Co. v. Gibney

Citations

• 160 U.S. 217
• 16 S. Ct. 272
• 40 L. Ed. 401
• 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2358

Syllabus

<p>Where the record shows that the only matter tried and decided in the Circuit Court was a demurrer to a plea to the jurisdiction, and the petition upon which the writ of error was allowed asked only for the review of the judgment that the court had no jurisdiction of the action, the question of jurisdiction alone is sufficiently-certified to this court, as required by the act of March 3, 1891, c. 517, § 5.</p> <p>Under the act of March 3, 1887, c. 373, as corrected by the act of August 13,' 1888, c. 866, a defendant, who enters a general appearance, in an action between citizens of different States, thereby waives the right afterwards to object that he or another defendant is not an inhabitant of the district in which the action is brought.</p>