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HOYT v. SHELDEN

66 U.S. 518 (____)

1 Black 518

HOYT vs. SHELDEN, EX'R OF THOMPSON, AND THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hoyt, of New York, for plaintiff in error.

Messrs. Blatchford and Stoughton, of New York, for Thompson's administrator.

Mr. De Forrest, of New York, for the Long Island Railroad Company.

Mr. Chief Justice TANEY.

This being a writ of error directed to a State court, it is incumbent upon the plaintiff, in order to give jurisdiction to this court, to show that one of the questions enumerated in the twenty-fifth section of the act of Congress of 1789, Ch. 20, arose at the trial, and that a right he claimed under the Constitution of the United States, or an act of Congress, was decided against him.

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