Atlantic Contracting Co. v. United States

The defendants, on October 7, 1918, filed a motion in this case to clarify the record. The motion is predicated upon the appearance in the record of an immense volume of testimony and printed reports offered in evidence in a criminal proceeding before John G. Shields, United States commissioner, in the case of United States v. Benjamin D. Greene et al. The effective relief sought to be obtained by this anomalous proceeding is to have all this evidence stricken *51from the record, or that the plaintiff be required by rule to indicate what portions of the same it intends to use.

The case itself…