Legal Opinion
Commonwealth Title Insurance & Trust Co. v. Bell
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
Decided May 3, 1898PublishedCited by 1 opinion
This case comes up on demurrer to a bill filed by the Commonwealth Title Insurance and Trust Company, charging that the defendant, Samuel Bell, clerk of the circuit court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, wrongfully denies to its representatives access to the indices, records, and papers of his office.
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
By section 2 of the statute of August .1, 1888, entitled “An act to regulate the liens of judgments and decrees of the courts of the United States” (25 Stat. 357; Rev. St. Supp. p. 602), it is provided:
“That the clerks of the several courts of the United States shall prepare and keep in their respective offices complete and convenient indices and crossindices of the judgment records of said courts, and such indices and records shall at all times be open to the inspection and examination of the public.”
The plaintiff is a corporation engaged in the business of giving…
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