LEWIS
v.
CAMPAU

U.S. | 1865-12-01
3 Wall. 106 Supreme Court of the United States (1865) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 18 L. Ed. 211 · 1865 U.S. LEXIS 691 · SCDB 1865-049
Cited by 6 cases
Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE:

The CHIEF JUSTICE:

Neither the validity of the statute, nor its construction was in any way drawn in question. The only question the court had to pass upon, and this only incidentally as affecting the admissibility of evidence, was the value of the land.

This is not a question which can be brought into this court under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act.

Writ of error dismissed.

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  • Dower v. Richards, 151 U.S. 658 (U.S. 1894)
    …question-would or would not be presented according to the way in which the question of fact was decided, is clearly settled by a series of later decisions, some of them in cases very like -the one-.now before us. . [*669] In Lewis v. Campau, (1865,) 3 Wall. 106, a decision of the state court as to the value of land conveyed by deed, upon which depended the requisite amount of stamps under the revenue law of the United States, was held not to be reviewable, although, if the' value of the land had been admit…
  • Cedar Rapids Gas Light Co. v. City of Cedar Rapids, 223 U.S. 655 (U.S. 1912)
  • Baltimore & Potomac R.R. Co. v. Hopkins, 130 U.S. 210 (U.S. 1889)
    …state court against any authority under the United States existing in fact, and that wé have, therefore, no jurisdiction of the case brought here by writ of error, we can perceive no reason for retaining it upon the docket.” So in Lewis v. Campau, 3 Wall. 106, where the final judgment of the highest court of law and equity in the State of Michigan was that the revenue stamps attached to a deed offered in evidence and dbjeeted to as not having stamps proportioned to the value of the land conveyed, were su…

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