Lutz v. Post

delivered tlie opinion of tlie court.

This is a suit, brought by Mr. R. R. Lutz, the editor of the Ponce Eagle, a newspaper published in the city of Ponce, P. R., against Regis H. Post, the Governor of Porto Rico, seeking an alternative writ of mandamus, directing the said defendant to show cause why a peremptory writ should not issue against him, commanding him to furnish the plaintiff a certified copy of a certain document alleged to be on file in the archives of his office.

From the record it appears that some time since certain members of the bar, practicing in the District Court of…