Johnson v. United States

BOURQUIN, District Judge.

In these war risk insurance cases set for trial, motions “for a change of venue” are filed, based on affidavits evidently of “stock” form; for they are identical in language, save that in the latter the masculine pronouns of the former, where not unchanged, áre in instances worked over to the feminine. The latter, omitting formal parts, is as follows:

“That the plaintiff believes that the Honorable George M. Bourquin, Judge of the above entitled Court, before whom said cause is pending, is prejudiced in favor of the defendant herein, and therefore she can not have a…