Winn's Heirs v. Jackson

Syllabus

[Practice.)

The judgment of the highest Court of .law of a State,'deciding in favour of the validity of a statute of a State, drawn in question on the ground of its being repugnant to the constitution of the.' United States, is not a final judgment within the 25th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, ch. 20., if the suit has been remanded to the inferior State Coiut, where it originated, for further proceedings, not inconsistent with the judgment of the highest Court

ERROR to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

This-was an ejectment, originally brought in the Harrispn Circuit Court of the State of Kentucky,.by the plaintiffs ;u error, against the defendants in error, and judgment being rendered for the plaiulitfs, (he cause was carried, by writ of error, to the Court of Appeals, being the highest Court of law and equity of that State. The judgment was reversed in the Court of Appeals, and the cause remanded to the Harrison Circuit Court, for further ptoceedings, not inconsistent with the decision of the Court of Appeal?. Whereupon the plaintiffs sued out their writ of error under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789,'c. 20. and brought the cause before this Court, as being a suit where was drawn in question the validity of a statute of the State of Kentucky, on the ground of its being repugnant to the constitution of the United State?, and the decision being in favour of its validity.