Kreiger v. Shelby Railroad

Citations

• 125 U.S. 39
• 8 S. Ct. 752
• 31 L. Ed. 675
• 1888 U.S. LEXIS 1911

Syllabus

<p>Upon a writ of error to the highest court of a State, under Re\\'. Stat. § 709, the opinion of that court, recorded as required by the statutes .of the State, may be examined by this court to ascertain the ground of the judgment.</p> <p>Statutes of a State authorized a district in a county, defined by exact boundaries, to determine by the vote of its inhabitants to subscribe for stock in a railroad company, and required bonds to be executed in its name by the county judge to the railroad company for the amount of stock so subscribed for. By later statutes, it was enacted that this district should be entitled to vote on the amount of its stock, and in so doing be represented by certain magistrates of the county; and that it should have a certain corporate name, and by that name might sue and be sued. The highest court of the State held that by the earlier statutes the district was made a corporation, and entitled to vote and to receive dividends on ■its stock in the railroad company, and that the later statutes made no change in the contract created by the earlier statutes. Held, that this court liad no jurisdiction on writ of error.</p>