Case Name: Fordson Coal Company v. John M. Moore, Sheriff
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1927-10-31
Citations: 275 U.S. 494
Docket Number: No. 72
Parties: Fordson Coal Company v. John M. Moore, Sheriff.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 275
Pages: 494–495

Head Matter:
No. 72.
Fordson Coal Company v. John M. Moore, Sheriff.
Argued October 27, 1927.
Decided October 31, 1927.
Mr. Wallace B. Middleton, with whom Mr. Clifford B. Longley was on the brief, for plaintiff in error. Messrs. Frank E. Daugherty, Attorney General of Kentucky, Gardner K. Byers and Swagar Sherley were on the brief for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Pet Curiam.
The writ of error is dismissed on the authority of § 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the act of February 13, 1925 (43 Stat. 936, 937), for lack of jurisdiction. Jett Bros. Distilling Company v. City of Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5, 6. Treating the writ of error as an application for certiorari, the certiorari is denied for want of a substantial federal question on the authority of Shulthis v. McDougal, 225 U. S. 561, 569; Hull v. Burr, 234 U. S. 712, 720; Norton v. Whiteside, 239 U. S. 144, 147.