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Timestamp: 2019-04-26 06:38:32+00:00

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Argued Oct. 15, 16, 1934.
The certificate fails to conform to the requirement that questions submitted must be questions of law and not mixed questions of law and fact, and not such as involve or imply conclusions or judgment by the Court upon the effect of facts adduced in the cause, and must be distinct and definite. The Court cannot be called upon to answer questions of objectionable generality, or to review proceedings, facts, and circumstances for the purpose of deciding a variety of preliminary questions in order to reach and decide an ultimate question submitted. Rule 37 (28 USCA § 354) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. v. Williams, 205 U.S. 444, 451—453, 27 S.Ct. 559, 51 L.Ed. 875; United States v. Mayer, 235 U.S. 55, 66, 35 S.Ct. 16, 59 L.Ed. 129; Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. v. Arctic Iron Co., 248 U.S. 178, 179, 39 S.Ct. 91, 63 L.Ed. 198; United States v. John Barth Co., 276 U.S. 606, 48 S.Ct. 338, 72 L.Ed. 728; White v. Johnson, 282 U.S. 367, 371, 51 S.Ct. 115, 75 L.Ed. 388; Wells v. Commissioner, 286 U.S. 529, 52 S.Ct. 503, 76 L.Ed. 1271. See, also, Dennistoun v. Stewart, 18 How. 565, 568, 15 L.Ed. 489; California Artificial Stone Paving Co. v. Molitor, 113 U.S. 609, 616, 5 S.Ct. 618, 28 L.Ed. 1106; Jewell v. Knight, 123 U.S. 426, 432, 8 S.Ct. 193, 31 L.Ed. 190.

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