Caledonian Coal Co. v. Baker
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY. OF-NEW MEXICO. This appeal brirfgs up for review a final judgment of the Supreme Court of the-Territory of New Mexico denying an application to that court by the Caledonian Coal Company for a writ of mandamus to. compel Benjamin S. Baker, Judge of the District Court of the Second Judicial District-of that Territory, to take cognizance of a certain action brought in that court against the Santa Fé Pacific Railroad Company and…
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY. OF-NEW MEXICO. This appeal brirfgs up for review a final judgment of the Supreme Court of the-Territory of New Mexico denying an application to that court by the Caledonian Coal Company for a writ of mandamus to. compel Benjamin S. Baker, Judge of the District Court of the Second Judicial District-of that Territory, to take cognizance of a certain action brought in that court against the Santa Fé Pacific Railroad Company and others. The petition for mandamus makes the following case: On the seventeenth day of February, 1904, the Caledonian Coal…
1Opinion of the Court · HarlanJustice Harlan
At the present • term the appellant suggested • that Judge Baker had been succeeded in office by Judge Ira. A. Abbott. And it moved that such order be made in the premises as would be conformable to-the'rules and: practice of. this court. Judge Abbott consents -that the action may be revived against him as the successor of Judge- Baker, and proceed te a hearing, without further summons- or- notice',, upon the record as now presented- to the court.
The first.question to-be- considered is whether it is competent for- this court, Judge- Baker-, having, ceased to be- judge,, to. substitute- the…
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