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JETTON v. UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH

No. 488.

208 U.S. 489 (1908)

JETTON, REVENUE AGENT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, v. UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1908.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles T. Cates, Junior, Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, and Mr. Felix D. Lynch, with whom Mr. Frank L. Lynch, Mr. I.G. Phillips and Mr. Thomas B. Lytle were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. James J. Lynch and Mr. Arthur Crownover, with whom Mr. William D. Spears, Mr. Isaac W. Crabtree, Mr. John J. Vertrees, Mr. Albert T. McNeal and Mr. William L. Myers were on the brief, for appellee.

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

The appellant insists that the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction of this suit, because all the parties are citizens of Tennessee. We think, however, that jurisdiction existed, because the case is one arising under the Constitution of the United States, the complainant insisting that under such Constitution the law of the State of...

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