Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. v. Ward

Inter-Island Stream Nav. Co. v. Ward
Inter-Island Stream Nav. Co. v. Ward
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 9, 1916; Decided October 30, 1916
Full case name	Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. v. Ward
Citations	242 U.S. 1 (more) 37 S. Ct. 1; 61 L. Ed. 113
Case history
Prior	On error from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Subsequent	None
Holding
	A writ of error will not lie from the United States Supreme Court to review a judgment of the circuit court of appeals in a case presenting neither diversity of citizenship nor federal question, which was taken to that court from the Supreme Court of Hawaii, pursuant to Judicial Code, § 246, as amended by the Act of January 28, 1915, 38 Stat. 803, c. 22, upon the basis of pecuniary amount alone.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Edward D. White Associate Justices Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr.; William R. Day · Willis Van Devanter; Mahlon Pitney · James C. McReynolds; Louis Brandeis · John H. Clarke
Case opinion
Majority	Chief Justice White, joined by all
Laws applied
	Judicial Code, § 246

Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. v. Ward, 242 U.S. 1 (1916), was a civil lawsuit that came before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1916. It involved the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company, a shipping company operating in the Hawaiian Islands. The Supreme Court declined to review a judgment of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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