...v. California, 274 US 357, 360;. 2 Sec. 237 (a) of the Judicial Code, as thus amended, now provides that: "A final judgment or decree in any suit in the...drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of the United States, and the decision is against its validity; or where is drawn in question the validity...

...until today: * "It is axiomatic that, in order to give this court jurisdiction on writ of error to the highest court of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, it must appear affirmatively not only that a Federal question was presented for decision by the highest...

...of a final judgment or decree, actually or constructively deciding such question, when rendered by the highest court of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, and as for the want of a proper appeal no final judgment or decree in such court has been rendered,...

...States, the Supreme Court shall, upon writ of error, reexamine, reverse, or affirm the final judgment of the highest court of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, if said claim is made in said court at any time before said final judgment is entered and if the decision...

...here on error as being within the 25th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789; a section which enacts that a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity in a State wherein is drawn in question the validity of a statute of the United States...

...it can issue on a similar proceeding in a state Court. By the twenty-fifth section it is provided, "That a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest Court of law or equity of a stato, in which a decision of the suit could be had," &c. (enumerating the particular...

...of an authority under that State. Weston v. City Council of Charleston, 2 Pet. 449. A final judgment in any suit in the highest court of a State, in which a decision could be had affirming the validity of an ordinance of a municipal corporation of that State, which...

...judiciary act of September 24, 1789, c. 20, 1 Stat. 73, 85, provided that a writ of error would lie to a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, "where is drawn in question...

...in a case where a final judgment or decree has been rendered in the highest court of law or equity of a state, in which a decision in the suit could...question, the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is againit their validity, &c. or...

...while I read the following provision from the 25th section of the judicial act of the year 1789: " A final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state in which a decision in the suit could be had, •where is drawn in question...