New York Central Railroad v. New York

Citations

• 186 U.S. 269
• 22 S. Ct. 916
• 46 L. Ed. 1158
• 1902 U.S. LEXIS 894

Syllabus

<p>Without deciding that the briefs of counsel may be resorted to for the purpose of determining whether a Federal question was raised in the state court, it is sufficient to say that a general claim made that a particular act of the legislature is violative of the state and Federal Constitution, is not sufficient to show that a Federal right was specially set up and claimed or the validity of a statute was drawn in question in the state court, when no Such question was noticed in the opinion of the state court and the case was disposed of upon a ground wholly independent of a Federal question.</p>