New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad v. National Rice Milling Co.

Syllabus

<p>Where the judgment of a state court rests upon an independent ground not only adequate to sustain it but in entire harmony with an asserted Federal right, there is no denial of that right in the sense contemplated by § 237 of the Judicial Code, and the writ of error will be dismissed.</p> <p>Where the initial carrier sets up the Carmack Amendment and also denies negligence; but the state court finds from conflicting evidence that the loss was occasioned'-by the negligence of the connecting carrier, the judgment rests on that finding as an independent ground, and this court has not jurisdiction.</p> <p>A party is entitled to the benefit of all the testimony in the case from, whatever source it comes; and, although having the burden of proof, need not prove any fact otherwise established.</p>