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Woolf v. Hamilton

108 U.S. 15 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1882-11-10 English

Delivered by Waite C.J.

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p. 15
WOOLF v. HAMILTON et al.

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IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH.
Decided November 10th, 1882.
Error — Practice—Statutes.
A case not tried in a territorial cohrt by a jury eannot-be brought for review by a writ of error.

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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