UNITED STATES v. MAYER

No. 462.

235 U.S. 55 (1914)

UNITED STATES v. MAYER, JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 16, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Karl W. Kirchwey was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Wilson B. Brice, with whom Mr. Samuel Williston was on the brief, for respondent.


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

Preliminarily, objection is raised to the authority of this court to answer the questions certified. Under § 239 of the Judicial Code, questions may be certified by the Circuit Court of Appeals "in any case within its appellate jurisdiction, as defined in section one hundred and twenty-eight"; and § 128 provides that the...

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