Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2010-04-28 16:47:27+00
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261 U.S. 252 (1923)
RANDALL ET AL.
v.
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY, INDIANA.
No. 274.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued January 25, 1923.
Decided February 19, 1923.
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF INDIANA.
Mr. Otto Gresham for plaintiffs in error.
Mr. Clyde H. Jones, with whom Mr: D.P. Flanagan was on the brief, for defendant in error.
Memorandum opinion by MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND.
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Indiana, when, clearly, it should have been to the State Appellate Court.
The action was brought in the Superior Court for Tipecanoe County. A demurrer to the complaint was sustained. An appeal was allowed to the Supreme Court but that court, of its own motion, entered an order transferring the cause to the Appellate Court, for want of jurisdiction. The Appellate Court thereupon took the case, received the briefs of counsel, heard oral arguments and affirmed the judgment of the trial court. A petition for rehearing was submitted and was denied. Plaintiffs in error then applied to the Supreme Court for an order to vacate its former order of transfer, or, in the alternative, for a writ of error coram nobis, which the Supreme Court denied.
It therefore appears that the Supreme Court refused to take the case on appeal for want of jurisdiction, and the judgment of the highest court of the State in which a decision *253 in the suit could be had, Judicial Code, § 237, is that of the Appellate Court to which the writ should have been directed.
The writ of error must, therefore, be dismissed on the authority of Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hughes, 203 U.S. 505; Lane v. Wallace, 131 U.S. Appendix CCXIX; Norfolk & Suburban Turnpike Co. v. Virginia, 225 U.S. 264, 269; Second National Bank v. First National Bank, 242 U.S. 600; Prudential Insurance Co. v. Cheek, 259 U.S. 530.
Dismissed.