Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. Texas (No. 2)

Citations

• 212 U.S. 112
• 29 S. Ct. 227
• 53 L. Ed. 431
• 1909 U.S. LEXIS 1800

Syllabus

<p>' The review of a judgment of a state court is confined to assignments of error máde and passed upon in the judgment brought here for review; assignments of errors in this court cannot bring new matter into the recor^.</p> <p>When a state court decides a case upon a non-Federal ground which is . sufficient to maintain the decision this court will not review the judgment. '</p> <p>Procedure in matters under its jurisdiction is for the State and its courts to determine; and nothing in. the Federal Constitution prevents a state court from acting in a proceeding for receivership of a corporation brought by the State on testimony , taken in the suit by the State against the same corporation and on the judgment in,which suit thé receivership proceeding is based.</p> <p>An attempt to raise the Federal question in the petition for rehearing in the highest court of the State will not avail if the petition is overruled without specifically passing on the questions.</p>