Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Whitmore v. Salt Lake City
57 S. Ct. 673
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1937-03-29
- Topic
- general
in promulgating the Declaratory Judgment Act, Congress intended “to avoid accrual of avoidable damages to one not certain of his rights and to afford him an early adjudica tion without waiting until his adversary should see fit to begin suit”
Citator
- Cited by
- 28 opinions
The motion of the appellees to dismiss the appeal is granted and the appeal is dismissed for the want of jurisdiction. Godchaux Co. v. Estopinal, 251 U. S. 179; Herndon v. Georgia, 295 U. S. 441, 443; Johnson v. Washington, 296 U. S. 535. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was allowed as a petition for a writ of certiorari, as required by § 237 (c), Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of February 13, 1925 (43 Stat. 936, 938), certiorari is denied.