O'CONOR v. Texas

Citations

• 202 U.S. 501
• 26 S. Ct. 726
• 50 L. Ed. 1120
• 1906 U.S. LEXIS 1550

Syllabus

<p>As subsection 1 of section 639, Rev. Stat., wa,s repealed by the act of March 3, 1875, 18 Stat. 470, and, as the purpose of the act of March 3, 1887, 24 Stat. 556, as corrected by the act of August 13, 1888, 25 Stat. 433, was to limit the jurisdiction of the Circuit.Courts, a petition for removal of an action brought by a State in its own courts against an alien was properly denied.</p> <p>In an action to recover real estate, part of a grant from a former sovereign, defenses based on ■ adverse possession, estoppel, construction of state statutes, and the effect of judgments of the state court in other actions, neither the validity nor the construction of any treaty of the United States or the validity of the grant being challenged, do not present Federal questions which give this court jurisdiction to review the judgment on writ of error.</p>