Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Turner v. Board of Commisioners of Wilkes County…
“ We are therefore bound by the decision of the state court in regard to the meaning of the constitution and laws of its own state, and its decision upon such a state of facts raises no federal question. Other principles obtain when the writ of error is to a federal court. ”
Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Turner v. Board of Commisioners of Wilkes County…
“ But in this case we have no power to examine the correctness of the decision of the supreme court of North Carolina, because, this being a writ of error to a state court, we cannot take jurisdiction under the allegation that a contract has been impaired by a decision of that court, when it appears that the state court has done nothing more than construe its own constitution and statutes existing at the time when the bonds were issued ”
