ANDREWS v. VIRGINIAN RY. CO.

No. 82.

248 U.S. 272 (1919)

ANDREWS, ADMINISTRATRIX OF ANDREWS, v. VIRGINIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.P. Staples and Mr. A.B. Hunt for plaintiff in error.

Mr. H.T. Hall and Mr. G.A. Wingfield, with whom Mr. E.W. Knight and Mr. W.H.T. Loyall were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement of the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

At the threshold, there arises a question of our jurisdiction which we may not overlook and which we must therefore decide. The question is, has this court power by writ of error to review the judgment below; or, in other words, is the authority of the court to review that judgment confined by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, 39 Stat. 726, to the right...

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