William Henry Moody

“ But we think, in view of the fact that when the copies of the journals were offered in evidence no objection had been made that the originals were not produced, the language of the court may quite as naturally be interpreted as a declination to pass on a question, not necessary to the decision, which had been set at rest for the future by legislation. The best that can be said for the plaintiffs in error is that the action of the court was ambiguous. ”

“ It must not, however, be understood that we intimate that any form of assignment would have given this court the authority to review the determination of the highest court of a state of the proper method of proving the existence of its own laws. ”