Barry v. Hall

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia discharging a writ of habeas corpus and dismissing the petition upon which it was founded. There is no bill of exceptions, and we can. therefore consider only whether the order is sustainable on the pleadings. Fleischmann Construction Co. v. United States, 1926, 270 U. S. 349, 356, 46 S.Ct. 284, 287, 70 L.Ed. 624; Eastman Kodak Co. v. Gray, 1934, 292 U. S. 332, 337, 54 S.Ct. 722, 724, 78 L.Ed. 1291; Harvey Co. v. Malley, 1933, 288 U.S. 415, 419, 53 S.Ct. 426,…