Nashville, C. & St. LR Co. v. Wallace

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• holding that because the matter would have been justiciable as a request for an injunction, the suit for declaratory judgment was capable of federal adjudication
• holding that a controversy justiciable if presented in a suit for injunction is justiciable in a suit for declaratory relief
• explaining that a case was justiciable when it sought a “definitive adjudication” of a disputed right that would not be “subject to revision by some other and more authoritative agency”
• applying the same limitation to the Supreme Court’s review of a Tennessee state-court decision based on the state’s declaratory judgment act
• upholding federal court's power to issue declaratory judgments prior to enactment of the Declaratory Judgment Act
• a justiciable controversy is not \any the less so because through a modified procedure appellant has been permitted to present it in the state courts\

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