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93 U.S. 320

Kimball v. Evans

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 1, 1876

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1876-10

Held: that this court has no jurisdiction. Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio. Pending á suit in the District Court of Stark County, Ohio, a petition was filed, under the act of March 2,1867 ( 14 Stat. 558 ), for its removal to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District in that State.

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Petition denied / appeal dismissed · 9–0 · Decided 1876-10

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1946

10 state decisions

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¶1Where a petition for the removal of a suit filed under the act of March 2,1867 (14 Stat. 558), was, in accordance witli the practice of the State, reserved for the decision of the Supreme Court, and the latter dismissed the petition, and remanded the cause to the inferior court for further proceedings, according to law, — Held, that this court has no jurisdiction.

¶2Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio.

¶3Pending á suit in the District Court of Stark County, Ohio, a petition was filed, under the act of March 2,1867 (14 Stat. 558), for its removal to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District in that State. This petition presenting for consideration, in the opinion of the District Court, difficult and important questions, the cause was reserved, in accordance with the practice in Ohio, to the Supreme Court “ for its decision on said petition for the removal of ¿he cause to the Circuit Court.” The Supreme Court, after hearing, dismissed the petition and remanded the cause to the District Court “ for further proceedings according to law.”

¶4To reverse this judgment the present writ of error was brought.

¶5Submitted on printed arguments by Mr. H. E. Paine for the defendant in error.

¶6*321Mr. Chief Justice Waite

¶7delivered the opinion of the court.

¶8It is clear we have no jurisdiction in this cause. The judgment of the Supreme Court is not the final judgment in the suit. It disposed finally of one of the questions involved in the suit, but not of the suit itself. The suit is still pending in the District Court, and it is not impossible that the parties now complaining may be satisfied with the judgment which they may in the end be able to secure in the State courts. If not, after a final judgment has in fact been rendered by the highest court of the State in which a decision in the suit can be had, the case may be again brought here for a determination of the questions arising upon the petition for removal. But in the present condition of the record the writ must be

¶9Dismissed.

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