Case ID: us_74/html/0541-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      The. CHIEF .JUSTICE", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Palmer v. Donner.
    A district judge has no authority to sign a citation upon a writ ot error to a State court. When the citation has been thus signed, the writ of error will be dismissed on motion.
    This was a motion,: made by Mr. J. H. Bradley, to dismiss a writ of error directed to the Supreme Court of the State of California, on the. ground that the citation had Been signed by a district judge, which the record showed was the fact.
   The. CHIEF .JUSTICE

delivered the opinion of the ec urt.,

The revisory jurisdiction of this court over the'judgments of State tribunals, is defined by the' twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act-of 1789.- .It is there provided thátthe' citation- must be signed by the chief justice, or judge,1- dr chancellor of the court rendering or passing the judgment or decree complained of,, or by a j.ustice of the Supreme Court of the United ^States. But the .citation in; the-casé before us, was signed by district judge. This was without authority of law; and'the citation was, therefore, without effect. The case therefore is not properly,in this court;.and thé writ, of error must be

Dismissed: