United States ex rel. Palmer v. Lapp

The United States marshal for the Northern district of Ohio revoked the appointment of his chief office deputy, and the court below refused to issue a writ of mandamus to compel the marshal to reinstate the deputy. The facts on which the mandamus proceeding was based and the reasons for denying the writ appear in the trial judge’s-opinion, hereafter set out. In our judgment the writ was rightly denied, and, subject to some explanation, we approve of the reasoning on which refusal of the writ was based. It is true that at the time the relator, Palmer, received his last appointment as chief…