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William P. Devou, Executor of Sarah O. Devou, Deceased, Plaintiff in Error, v. Cincinnati, Covington & Erlanger Railway Company, 1911 — 220 U.S. 605 · caselaw · US
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William P. Devou, Executor of Sarah O. Devou, Deceased, Plaintiff in Error, v. Cincinnati, Covington & Erlanger Railway Company
220 U.S. 605·Supreme Court of the United States·1911
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Opinion
No. 123.
William P. Devou, Executor of Sarah O. Devou, Deceased, Plaintiff in Error, v. Cincinnati, Covington & Erlanger Railway Company.
Error to the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky.
Argued for the plaintiff in error April 12, 1911.
Decided April 17, 1911.
Mr. Herbert Jackson for the plaintiff in error.
Mr. Frank Wright Cottle, Mr. Alfred C. Cassatt and Mr. Richard P. Ernst for the defendant in error.
[MAJORITY — Per Curiam.]
Per Curiam.
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. First National Bank v. Estherville, 215 U. S. 341, 346; Rogers v. Clark Iron Co., 217 U. S. 589; Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. Texas, 212 U. S. 112, 116, 117, and cases cited;. Cincinnati &c. Railway Co. v. Slade, 216 U. S. 78, 83.