Woolf v. Hamilton
Supreme Court of the United States
Woolf v. Hamilton, 108 U.S. 15 (1882)
1 S. Ct. 139; 27 L. Ed. 635; 1882 U.S. LEXIS 1276
Woolf v. Hamilton
Opinion
delivered the opinion of the court. This writ of error is disinissed on the authority of Hecht v. Boughton, 105 U. S. 235. The case was not tried in the. court below by a jury. This, under the act of April 7th, 1874, c. 80, 18 Stat. 27, made it necessary to bring the judgment here for review by appeal and not by writ of error.
Dismissed.
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- WOOLF v. HAMILTON Et Al.
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- Syllabus
- Error — Practice—Statutes. A case not tried in a territorial cohrt by a jury eannot-be brought for review by a writ of error.