United States ex rel. Philips v. Bailey

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The relators pray for a writ of mandamus to be directed to the defendant as a justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting in equity suit No. 41,042, wherein the relators are defendants, to compel the justice to fix the amount of an appeal bond for the appeal of the cause by them to this eourt.

The respondent in his return represents that the decree which relators seek to appeal from is not such a final decree as is appeal-able, in that the matters put in issue by the pleadings are not fully and finally disposed of thereby; that the cause is therein…