Morrison Waite,
Boughton v. Exchange Bank — Opinion of the Court
“ As it is incumbent on him to show by the record, not only that this was not the ground of the decision below, but that some wrong determination of a Federal question was,-and it has not been done,-we might dismiss the suit without further examination; but on looking into the opinion, which has been sent up with the record, we find that the Court of Appeals based its judgment, which alone we can review, entirely on the fact that the affidavit was not sufficiently specific in its averments to meet the requirements of the rules of pleading applicable to such cases. ”
