...cases, in which writs of error and appeals from the final judgments and decrees of the highest court of a state in which a decision in the suit could be had, may be taken and prosecuted to the Supreme Court of the United States under the provisions of section...

...Virginia, holding that. "The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States extends to a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a State ; where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty, or statute of, or an authority exercised under...

...twenty-third, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be, and it hereby is, amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 237. A final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a...

...the case'; By the 2i)th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 it is provided that "a final judgment "r decree, in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in tin' suit could be had where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Const it u...

...18 Wend., 645; Secor v. Sturgit, 16 NY, 548. Mr. JM Carlisle, for defendant in error: Here was not drawn in question ' 'the validity of a treaty or statute...an authority exercised under, the United States," nor "the construction of any clause of the Constitution, nor of a treaty or statute of, or commission...

...court in the case of 'a final judgment in any suit in the highest court of law of a state in which the decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of a slate, on the ground of its being repugnant to the Constitution of the United States,...

...section of the judiciary act of 1789, but in a case where a fin¡>! judgment or decree has beee rendered in the highest court of law or equity of a state,...authority exercised under, the United States, and the division is against their validity, &c., or whom is drawn in question the construction of any eh. ut...

...materially changed.1 This jurisdic1 See Act of September 24, 1789, Section 25; 1 US Stats, at Large, p. 85: "A final Judgment or decree In any suit In the highest...In which a decision In the suit could be had, where la drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United...

...to the review of such a case as we have here, are these : "A final judgment ... in the highest court of a state in which a decision in the suit could be...where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty ... of ... the United States, and the decision is against their fits] validity . . . may be re-exarained...

...court of law or equity of a state, having jurisdiction of tbe subject-matter of the suit, where is drawn In question the validity of a treaty, or statute...exercised under the United States, and the decision Is agalnat their validity ; or where Is drawn In question the validity of a •tarnte of, or an authority...