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OLD NICK WILLIAMS CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 26.

215 U.S. 541 (1910)

30 S.Ct. 221

54 L.Ed. 318

OLD NICK WILLIAMS COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 24, 1910.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles A. Moore, with whom Mr. William P. Bynum was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Fowler for the United States.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The rule has long been settled that "a writ of error is not brought, in the legal meaning of the term, until it is filed in the court which rendered the judgment. It is the filing of the writ that removes the record from the inferior to the appellate court, and the period of limitation prescribed by the act of Congress must be calculated accordingly." Taney, C.J., in...

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