Ex Parte the Union Steamboat Company
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. This was a petition for a writ of mandamus to the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, commanding it to set aside a decree entered in the case of The New Yorlc, 175 U. S. 187, and enter a decree dividing the damages equally, so that petitioner would not be decreed to pay more than one half the total damages arising out of the collision between the New York and the Conemaugh, with interest thereon not exceeding five per cent per annum.
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ORIGINAL. This was a petition for a writ of mandamus to the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, commanding it to set aside a decree entered in the case of The New Yorlc, 175 U. S. 187, and enter a decree dividing the damages equally, so that petitioner would not be decreed to pay more than one half the total damages arising out of the collision between the New York and the Conemaugh, with interest thereon not exceeding five per cent per annum. Upon the opinion of this court in the case of The New Yorlc being filed, a mandate issued that the decree of the Court of Appeals be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
Petitioner applies for this writ of mandamus upon the ground that the District Court refused to enter a decree in conformity with the .opinion of this court dividing the damages, but in effect entered a decree imposing upon the Union Steamboat Company, the petitioner, about seventy-six per cent of the damages occasioned by the collision.
The duty of an inferior court upon receiving the mandate of this court is nowhere better described than by Mr. Justice Baldwin in an early case upon that subject, Ex parte Sibbald v. United States, 12 Pet. 488, 492: “ Whatever,” said he, “ was before the…
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