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BROWN v. MASSACHUSETTS

No. 839.

144 U.S. 573 (1892)

12 S.Ct. 757

36 L.Ed. 546

BROWN, v. MASSACHUSETTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 18, 1892.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R.D. Weston-Smith (with whom was Mr. H.W. Chaplin on the brief) for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Albert E. Pillsbury, Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

In order to give this court jurisdiction, under section 709 of the Revised Statutes, to review on writ of error a decision of the highest court of a State against a title, right, privilege or immunity claimed under the Constitution of the United States, it must, as observed by Chief Justice Waite in Spies v. Illinois, "appear on the record that such title, right, privilege...

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