Keen v. Keen

Citations

• 201 U.S. 319
• 26 S. Ct. 494
• 50 L. Ed. 772
• 1906 U.S. LEXIS 1791

Syllabus

<p>Where the only assignment of error does not involve any Federal question the'mere statement in- the motion for new trial that the judgment deprives plaintiff in error of his property without due process of law, denies him equal protection of tlie laws, and is contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment, without any allegation as to why the judgment has this effect, no notice of which is taken by the state court in denying the motion does not properly raise a Federal question so as to give this court jurisdiction to review under § 709, Rev. Stat., even though the writ be allowed by the presiding judge ’of the state court.</p> <p>What facts constitute a common-law marriage in a State is purely a local, and not a Federal, question.</p>