SWIFT v. McPHERSON

No. 77.

232 U.S. 51 (1914)

SWIFT v. McPHERSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 5, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edwin Van Cise, with whom Mr. William H. Beck, Mr. Frank L. Grant and Mr. Philip S. Van Cise were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Norman T. Mason, with whom Mr. Chambers Kellar and Mr. James G. Stanley were on the brief, for defendant in error.


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

In the record there are sixty assignments of error involving many rulings of the trial court and the construction of the contract. We can only consider those which present the Federal question that, in failing to sustain the plea of res judicata, the court denied plaintiff a right arising under the laws of the United States. The refusal of the state court to...

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