City of Wheeling v. John F. Casey Co.

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition for a mandamus filed in December, 1935, by the appellee, a Pennsylvania corporation here referred to as the petitioner, in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Wheeling, asking that the appellants, here referred to as respondents, be required to pay a judgment obtained by the petitioner against the respondent City of Wheeling or to lay a special levy sufficient to satisfy said judgment. The City of Wheeling is a municipal Corporation of the state of West Virginia and of the respondents, Harry J.…