Source: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/187/155/
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 08:17:27+00:00

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In the case before us, the Home for Incurables has not brought upon the record the fact that it asserted, in the state court, any federal right whatever. It is entirely consistent with the record that the home did not at any time pending the case in the state court set up or claim any such right. If our jurisdiction is invoked on the ground that the judgment of the state court has denied a right, title, privilege, or immunity secured by the Constitution of the United States, it is essential, under existing statutes, that such right, title, privilege, or immunity shall have been specially set up or claimed in the state court. Rev.Stat. 709; Armstrong v. Treasurer of Athens County, 16 Pet. 281, 41 U. S. 285; Railroad Company v. Rock, 4 Wall. 177, 71 U. S. 180; Powell v. Brunswick County, 150 U. S. 433, 150 U. S. 439; Roby v. Colehour, 146 U. S. 153, 146 U. S. 159; Oxley Stave Co. v. Butler County, 166 U. S. 648, 166 U. S. 654; Levy v. Superior Court of San Francisco, 167 U. S. 175, 167 U. S. 177.
It is true that the transcript contains the certificate of the chief judge of the Court of Appeals of New York, not appearing to have been by order of that court while the case was before it or under its control, which states that the home did make, in that court, the federal questions now pressed upon our consideration. But that certificate is not properly a part of the record. While we have said in some cases that such a certificate is entitled to great respect, and in other cases that its office is to make that more certain and specific which is too general and indefinite in the record, it is insufficient in itself to give us jurisdiction or to authorize us to determine federal questions that do not appear in any form from the record to have been brought to the attention of the state court. Powell v. Brunswick County, 150 U. S. 433, 150 U. S. 439; Newport Light Co. v. Newport, 151 U. S. 527, 151 U. S. 537; Yazoo & Mississippi Railroad Co. v. Adams, 180 U. S. 41, 180 U. S. 47; Felix v. Scharnweber, 125 U. S. 54, 125 U. S. 59.

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