Ex Parte Burtis

This is a petition for a mandamus requiring the district, judge for the eastern district of New York to compel one Eliza M. Shepherd to obey the command of a subpoena duces tecum, and produce before a special examiner certain iron patterns of an old fire-place heater, that testimony might be taken respecting them, to be certified and used on the hearing of an equity cause pending in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. From the petition it appears that the judge has' already .acted on the idéntical showing made to us, and for reasons assigned in writing denied a motion for…