Edward Douglass White, El Banco Popular De Economias Prestamos De San Juan v…
“ Thus the proposition is that, because by Act of Congress jurisdiction was conferred upon the Circuit Court of Appeals to review a judgment of the Porto Rican court, therefore by the mere exertion of that jurisdiction the Porto Rican judgment was brought under the control, as to finality and review, of provisions having no possible application or relation to it. ”
Edward Douglass White, El Banco Popular De Economias Prestamos De San Juan v…
“ Virtually every word of the section relied upon to establish that the decree was not final and to justify the asserted right to review it in this court depends upon limitations expressed in the Judiciary Act of 1891, (26 Stat. 826) , and which were intended to carry out the great purposes of that act, to distribute the appellate power of the courts of the United States in the proper sense and were therefore inapplicable to the Porto Rican court. ”
