Ex Parte Mussina v. Cavazos
Supreme Court of the United States
On motion for a rule on the Hon. John C. "Watrous, judge of the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Texas, to show cause,, &c.
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On motion for a rule on the Hon. John C. "Watrous, judge of the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Texas, to show cause,, &c. Mr. Benjamin, of counsel for the said Jacob Mussina and Angela Garcia Lafon de Tarneva, appellants as aforesaid, and two of the defendants in the above-entitled cause, moved the court for a rule on the Hon. John C. Watrous, judge of the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Texas, requiring him to show cause, on the first-Monday of February next, why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not issue, directing him to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLEAN
A motion was made at this term for a rule on the district judge of Texas to show cause why a mandamus should not be issued, commanding him to allow an appeal in the above case. This rule was granted on the affidavit of Simon Mussina, as agent for a part of the defendants.
In his answer the judge says, “I am now ready to allow the appeal, and always have been; that some time before the 15th day of January, 1857, Mr. Daniel Atchison, of Galveston, stated to him, at chambers, that he wished to take an appeal for Jacob Mussina in the above case, and that the judge inquired whether the time limited…
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