Santa Fe Central Railway Co. v. Friday

Citations

• 232 U.S. 694
• 34 S. Ct. 468
• 58 L. Ed. 802
• 1914 U.S. LEXIS 1298

Syllabus

<p>A statute of a Territory cannot withdraw from the courts established by the United States authority expressly conferred upon them by Congress by the Organic. Act and other statutes. The City of Panama, 101 U. S. 453.</p> <p>The District Court of the United States for New Mexico has jurisdiction of a case arising under the Employers’ Liability Act of 1906.</p> <p>This court will not decide against the local understanding as expressed by the decisions of the Supreme Court of a Territory in construing a jurisdictional statute affecting a matter of local concern unless those decisions are clearly wrong. Phoenix Ry. Co. v. Landis, 231U. S. 578.</p>