Source: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/245/328.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 06:48:59+00:00

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Mr. Maynard F. Stiles, of Charleston, W. Va., for plaintiff in error.
Mr. William R. Lilly, of Logan, W. Va., and Mr. R. C. Alston, of Atlanta, Ga., for defendants in error.
This is an action of ejectment brought by the Buffalo Creek Coal & Coke Company in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia. Jurisdiction of that court was invoked solely on the ground of diversity of citizenship. A verdict was directed for the plaintiff below; and the case was brought here by direct writ of error, defendants below claiming that, by the action of the lower court they have been deprived of their property without due process of law in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the federal Constitution. [245 U.S. 328, 329] Plaintiff below set up title from the state derived through mesne conveyances, by virtue of sales made for the benefit of the school fund under statutes which have repeatedly been held valid by this court. 1 The action of which defendants complain as depriving them of due process of law, is the admission in evidence herein of the records and papers in three proceedings brought in the state courts of West Virginia under these statutes, and the rendering of judgment herein against them. As the action now complained of is not the action of a state, the Fourteenth Amendment can have no application. And the claim that the action of the court violates the Fifth Amendment is likewise unfounded.
[ Footnote 1 ] King v. Mullins, 171 U.S. 404 , 18 Sup. Ct. 925; King v. Panther Lumber Co., 171 U.S. 437 , 18 Sup. Ct. 573; Swann v. Treasurer of West Virginia, 188 U.S. 739 , 23 Sup. Ct. 848; King v. State of West Virginia, 216 U.S. 92 , 30 Sup. Ct. 225; Fay v. Crozer, 217 U.S. 455 , 30 Sup. Ct. 568; King v. Buskirk, 231 U.S. 735 , 34 Sup. Ct. 316.

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