Morrison Waite,
Goodenough Horseshoe Manufacturing Company v…
“ If the defendant below desires to bring the case here, it must take the necessary steps to correct the record, if in fact any error exists, so as to present the question it seeks to have decided. It is unnecessary for us to determine how this may be done, or whether the courts of the United States have authority to require the state court to act in that regard. All we do decide is that, until the record of the judgment we are called upon to examine discloses the question necessary to give us jurisdiction, we cannot proceed. ”
