Western Union Telegraph Company v. Hughes

Citations

• 203 U.S. 505
• 51 L. Ed. 294
• 27 S. Ct. 162
• 1906 U.S. LEXIS 1615

Syllabus

<p>Where the highest court of the State dismisses the writ, of error to the trial court solely and expressly because of lack of jurisdiction, the result of the ruling is to determine that the trial court is the final court where the question could be decided, and the writ of error from this court should be directed to the trial court,- and not to the highest fiourt, although that court may be clothed with jurisdiction of questions of state and Federal constitutionality of state laws, and may have discussed, and found without merit, the constitutional question.</p>