Ex Parte Taylor

55 U.S. 3 (1852)

14 How. 3

EX PARTE DAVID TAYLOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

To the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The petition of David Taylor respectfully showeth, that he is now confined in the jail in the city of Washington, at the suit of a certain Thomas Ewing, Jr., and he refers to the accompanying transcript of the record of said suit, and makes the same a part of this petition, for the better understanding of the proceedings under which he is now unjustly and oppressively detained in prison.

Your petitioner showeth, that by said record it appears he was held to bail…