Muir v. Chatfield
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. In the matter of the petition of James Thomson Muir, master of the British Admiralty transport Gleneden, for writs of prohibition and mandamus against Thomas I. Chatfield, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
This is an original proceeding in this court for a writ of prohibition and a writ of mandamus against the Honorable Thomas Ives Chatfield, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, on the ground that he has wrongfully refused to release from arrest in a proceeding in rem for collision the British Admiralty transport Gleneden in a libel there pending. We quote from the brief on behalf of the British Embassy in support of the petition, as follows:
“An admiralty suit in rem was brought in the Eastern District of New York by an Italian…
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