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North Carolina Mining Company v. Westfeldt

U.S.
Nov 15, 1909
215 U.S. 586 (1909)

Opinion

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT.

No. 580.

Motion to dismiss or affirm submitted November 8, 1909. Decided November 15, 1909.

An appeal from the Circuit Court of Appeals (166 F. 706) dismissed for want of jurisdiction on the authority of prior decisions.

CAUSE below heard before Fuller, Circuit Justice, and Morris and Brawley, District Judges, composing the court, and decree rendered January 12, 1909, 166 F. 706; petition for rehearing denied February 4, 1909; application for certiorari denied April 19, 1909, 214 U.S. 516; application to the Circuit Court of Appeals, Waddill, McDowell and Keller, District Judges, sitting, for allowance of appeal denied May 13, 1909; appeal granted June 12, 1909, by Goff, Circuit Judge, and motion to set aside that order denied August 21, 1909, Goff, Circuit Judge, stating: "I find myself impelled to the conclusion that the disposition by the Supreme Court of a motion to dismiss said appeal, will under the circumstances now existing best protect the interests of all the parties hereto, and will also settle a question of practice concerning which there is at this time doubt and confusion."

Mr. Joseph J. Hooker, Mr. James H. Merrimon, Mr. Hannis Taylor and Mr. Charles A. Moore for the appellant.

Mr. Julius C. Martin, Mr. Alfred S. Barnard and Mr. F.A. Sondley for the appellees.


Appeal dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Macfadden v. United States, 213 U.S. 288; Greeley v. Lowe, 155 U.S. 58; In re Winn, 213 U.S. 458; In re Moore, 209 U.S. 490.


Summaries of

North Carolina Mining Company v. Westfeldt

U.S.
Nov 15, 1909
215 U.S. 586 (1909)
Case details for

North Carolina Mining Company v. Westfeldt

Case Details

Full title:NORTH CAROLINA MINING COMPANY v . WESTFELDT

Court:U.S.

Date published: Nov 15, 1909

Citations

215 U.S. 586 (1909)

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