Legal Opinion
Nye v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 14, 1941No. 558PublishedCited by 350 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*39M«. Justice Douglas
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Petitioners were adjudged guilty,of contempt under § 268 of the Judicial Code (36 Stat. 1163, 28 U. S. C. §385) for their efforts to obtain a dismissal of a suit brought by one Elmore in the federal District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Elmore, administrator of the estate of his son, brought that action, in forma pauperis, against one Council and Bernard, partners, trading as B. C. Remedy Co., and alleged that his son died as a result of the use of a medicine, known as B C and manufactured and sold by them. The court…
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