Stephen Johnson Field

“ In other cases the review and correction of the proceedings must be obtained by the writ of certiorari. This is the general and well-established doctrine. Examples in which this is asserted are found in The Mayor, &c., of Brooklyn v. Meserole, [1] and in Heywood v. The City of Buffalo, [2] and in the cases there cited. [3]
The complainant can ask no greater relief in the courts of the United States than he could obtain were he to resort to the State courts. If in the latter courts equity would afford no relief, neither will it in the former. ”

“ With the proceedings and determinations of inferior boards or tribunals of special jurisdiction, courts of equity will not interfere, unless it should become necessary to prevent a multiplicity of suits or irreparable injury, or unless the proceeding sought to be annulled or corrected is valid upon its face, and the alleged invalidity consists in matters to be established by extrinsic evidence. ”

“ Notes
↑ 26 Wendell, 132.↑ 4 Kernan, 534.↑ See also Scott v. Onderdonk, Id. 9.
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