Lewis Pub. Co. v. Wyman
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
In Equity. The complainant, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of South Dakota, charges in its bill that it is engaged in the printing and publishing'business, having a publishing plant in University City, Winner Station, one of the substations of the post office of St. Louis, Mo., and that the defendant is the postmaster of said city of St. Louis; that one of the publications owned, printed, and issued by complainant is the Woman’s Farm Journal, which has…
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In Equity. The complainant, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of South Dakota, charges in its bill that it is engaged in the printing and publishing'business, having a publishing plant in University City, Winner Station, one of the substations of the post office of St. Louis, Mo., and that the defendant is the postmaster of said city of St. Louis; that one of the publications owned, printed, and issued by complainant is the Woman’s Farm Journal, which has been published for many years as a monthly publication, issued regularly each month; that on December 4, 1891, it was…
1Opinion of the Court
TRIER ER, District Judge.
The contention of counsel for defendant that the courts have no jurisdiction to re-examine the action of the head of one of the executive departments in matters of this kind cannot be sustained, as it is well settled that courts have jurisdiction to re-examine the action of the head of one of the executive departments in matters of this kind when he' is either acting without authority of law or in excess of the power granted to him by law, has proceeded in violation of an act of Congress, or has misconstrued the legal effect of the statute under which he is acting.…
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