Hayburn's Case
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was a motion for a mandamus to be dhefted to the Circuit. Court for the diftriCt of Petinfylváma, commanding the faid court tb proceed in a certain petition of Wm.
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THIS was a motion for a mandamus to be dhefted to the Circuit. Court for the diftriCt of Petinfylváma, commanding the faid court tb proceed in a certain petition of Wm. Hay-btirn, who had applied, tb bé pUton-the pendón lift of the United States, as an invalid penfioner^ " The - principal cafe arofe upon the a£t of Congrefs paifed the ⅞3d of March, 1792. who made the motion for the mandamus, -having premifed that, it was done ex offi-cio, without an application from any particular petfon, but with a view to procure the execution of an aCt of Congrefs, particularly interefting to a meritorious…
1Opinion of the Court
But
the Court'
being divided in opinion on that queftion, . the motion, made ex officio, was not allowed.
The Attorney General then changed the ground of his inter-pofition, declaring it to be at the inftance, and on behalf of Hay-hum, a party interefted ;. and he entered into the merits of the cafe,, upon the aft of Congrefs, and the refufal.of the Judges to carry it into effeft,
The Court obferved, that they would hold the motion. . under advifement, until the next ■ term ; but no decifion was-Over pronounced,' as the. Legiflat-ure, at an an intermedi ate feffion; provided, in another Way, for…
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