General
Midland Valley Railroad Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Mrs. Maude Griffith, Administratrix, etc.
245 U.S. 633·Supreme Court of the United States·1917
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Opinion
No. 601.
Midland Valley Railroad Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Mrs. Maude Griffith, Administratrix, etc.
In error to the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas.
Motion to dismiss or affirm and for damages submitted December 10, 1917.
Decided December 17, 1917.
Mr. L. T. Michener for plaintiff in error.
Mr. W. L. Cunningham and Mr. C. T. Atkinson for defendant in error.
[MAJORITY — Per Curiam.]
Per Curiam.
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction with five per cent, damages, upon the authority of § 237, Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of Congress of September 6, 1916, c. 448, 39 Stat. 726; Prairie Oil & Gas Co. v. Carter, 244 U. S. 646. (Petition for a writ of certiorari denied October 15, 1917, infra, 653.)