ALEXANDER McKENZIE
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an application by Alexander McKenzie for leave to tile a petition for habeas corpus to relieve him from an alleged unlawful restraint under certain orders of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit committing him for contempt.
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This was an application by Alexander McKenzie for leave to tile a petition for habeas corpus to relieve him from an alleged unlawful restraint under certain orders of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit committing him for contempt. The petition stated that on July 23, 1900, McKenzie was, by the judge of the second division of the District Court of Alaska, appointed receiver of the property involved in an action then pending in said court, entitled L. F. Melsing et al. v. John I. Tor'nanses, and was directed by the order appointing him as receiver to take possession of and…
1Opinion of the Court
Ch. Justice Fuller,
after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The writ of habeas corpus cannot be availed of as a writ of error and unless the writ or orders, for a violation of which .petitioner is being punished, in the case referred to in the petition, were absolutely void, this application must be denied. Accordingly it is contended that there was no legal authority for the issue of the writ of supersedeas, and that the Circuit Court of Appeals had not, at the time the writ was issued, nor at any other time, jurisdiction of the appeal in question.
It is said the…
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