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317 U.S. 587

Docket No. 140.

Osment v. Pitcairn

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 12, 1942.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1942-10-12

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“when a federal question is involved, the cause, on the application of the losing party, shall be transferred to the court for its decision.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Robert Kelley v. Harold R. Swenson

Relies on Gorman v. Washington University · Scheufler v. Manufacturing Lumbermen's Underwriters

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1942-10-12

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2008

3 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1Mr. H. G. Waltner, Jr. for petitioner.

¶2Messrs. Edgar Shook and N. S. Brown for respondents.

¶3Per Curiam:

¶4The last clause of § 4 of the 1890 amendments to Article VI of the Missouri constitution provides that “when a division [of the Supreme Court of Missouri] in which a cause is pending shall so order, the cause shall be transferred to the court for its decision.” In Scheufler v. Manufacturing Lumbermen’s Underwriters, decided July 7, 1942, the Supreme Court of Missouri stated that under this clause “either division, on application or its own motion and for reasons deemed sufficient though not enumerated in the section, may order a cause transferred to the court en banc.” 349 Mo. 855, 857; 163 S. W. 2d 749, 750. In this case petitioner made no application to transfer the cause from Division Two, where it was heard and decided, to the court en banc. As it does not appear that petitioner has exhausted the appellate review provided by state law, the petition for certiorari must be denied for want of jurisdiction. Gorman v. Washington University, 316 U. S. 98, and cases cited.

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