Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Graham
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 18, 1871PublishedCited by 5 opinions
On petition for a writ of prohibition to the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice'SWAYNE-
stated the case and delivered the opinion of the court.
A rule was granted by this court that the district judge show cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue agree,-ably to the prayer of the petitioners.
The petition upon which the rule was founded discloses, so far as it is necessary to state them, the following facts:
The United States instituted in the District Court of the United States.for the Eastern District of Louisiana, under the act of Congress approved July 17th, 1862, entitled “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and…
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