Mayor v. Lord
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Iowa; in which court the United States, on the relation or one R. L. Lord, were plaintiffs, and asked and obtained a peremptory mandamus against the mayor and aldermen of the city of Davenport, defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice S Wayne
stated the case, and deliverer the opinion of the court.
This case is brought before us by a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Iowa, ft is one of a class of eases, many of which, under differ enf aspects aucl presenting a variety of questions, have been heretofore decided by this court. It appears by the record that, on the 6th of November, 1867, the relator procured to be issued against the plaintiffs in error an alternative writ of mandamus, which was substantially as follows:
It recites that the relator recovered a judgment in that court against the…
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