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PIERCE v. CREECY

No. 357.

210 U.S. 387 (1908)

PIERCE v. CREECY, CHIEF OF POLICE OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1908.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph H. Choate and Mr. Joseph H. Choate, Jr., with whom Mr. Henry S. Priest was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. F.J. McCord and Mr. Shepard Barclay, with whom Mr. Thomas T. Fauntleroy was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE MOODY, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The first inquiry must be whether there is jurisdiction of this appeal, which was taken from the Circuit Court directly to this court. Since the passage of the act establishing the Circuit Court of Appeals (26 Stat. 826), appeals in habeas corpus cases from the District and Circuit Courts can only be taken to the Circuit Court...

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