An appeal was taken under § 5 of the act creating the Circuit Court of Appeals. 26 Stat. 826, 827. The mere construction of a state statute does not of itself present a Federal question. But the contention of appellants is that the Circuit Court improperly construed the act of 1904; that correctly construed it applies not merely...
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