Ex parte Steele
District Court, N.D. Alabama
'Prior to August 2,188G, there was one district judge appointed for the Northern, Middle, and Southern districts of Alabama, under section 552 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 447). That judge was' the Honorable John Bruce. He was appointed and confirmed as judge of “each of the districts” in the state on the 25th of February, 1875, and so continued until the Act of August 2, 1886 (24 Stat. 213, c. 842 [U. S. Comp.
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'Prior to August 2,188G, there was one district judge appointed for the Northern, Middle, and Southern districts of Alabama, under section 552 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 447). That judge was' the Honorable John Bruce. He was appointed and confirmed as judge of “each of the districts” in the state on the 25th of February, 1875, and so continued until the Act of August 2, 1886 (24 Stat. 213, c. 842 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 449]), when a judge (Hon. H. T. Toulmin) was appointed for the Southern district under the Act of August 2, 1886, the second section of which provided…
1Opinion of the CourtJones, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The publication of my colleague’s opinions in Ex parte Steele, in the official reports and in the newspapers, and the conflicting orders growing out of a mere administrative matter, as to which we have joint authority, in the appointment of a referee at Birmingham, justify the filing at Riis time of an extended opinion as to the law of the case. Some ex*698traneous matters emphasized more than once in an invidious way, in both those opinions, render it highly proper also to put on record a plain and full statement of the facts regarding a controversy, which, in…
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