United States v. Thurston

In this case counsel for the defendants have declared in open court their intention to suggest my disqualification to pass upon the pending demurrers, as well as to preside at the trial, on the ground of my having been of counsel for one of the defendants previous to becoming a judge of this court; and the plaintiff having meantime moved to set the demurrers for hearing, several of the defendants have now joined in filing such suggestion. Aside from this action of the parties, I also had been considering the question with the view of declining, on my own motion, to sit in the case if I should…