In re Chambers
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska
At Law. Petition for leave to examine court records. The following motion was filed on the 6th day of December, 1890: "In the Circuit Court of the United States in Nebraska. November Term, 1890. “motion.
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At Law. Petition for leave to examine court records. The following motion was filed on the 6th day of December, 1890: "In the Circuit Court of the United States in Nebraska. November Term, 1890. “motion. “Comes now the undersigned, and on behalf of the said J. M. Chambers, whose name is subscribed to the affidavit accompanying this motion, and moves the court that the clerk thereof be instructed as to the right of the public, and especially said J. M. Chambers', to make inspection and examination of the indices and records authorized and prepared by authority of the act of congress approved…
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, J.
It will be observed that the petitioners do not seek an order authorizing the inspection and examination, by the public or themselves, of all the records in the clerk’s office, but only those specifically mentioned in the second section of the act of congress of August 1, 1888, (25 U. S. St. 357.) They are the indices and cross-indices to the judgment records of the court and the judgment records themselves. Taking them in their chronological order, the acts of congress which re*788quire consideration in the determination of the question raised by this petition are as follows:
Act of August 12,…
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