Horace Gray

“ That by the law, as interpreted by the decision and judgment herein, the legislature of the state of New York attempts to exercise jurisdiction beyond the state, and to affect contracts and rights of a citizen of another state, which are protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States and the judicial power granted to its courts, and violates and interferes with the sovereignty of the state of New Jersey. ”

“ In order to give this court jurisdiction of a writ of error to review a judgment which the highest court of a state has rendered in favor of the validity of a statute of or an authority exercised under a state, the validity of the statute or authority must have been 'drawn in question . ”

“ That the property in question being situated in the state of New Jersey, of which state also the decedent was a resident at the time of his decease, the laws of the state of New York have no application thereto, nor have the courts of New York Jurisdiction thereof. ”