Ex Parte Slater
Supreme Court of the United States
PETITION FOB WEIT OF MANDAMUS. This is a petition for a writ of mandamus, against the judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri directing the revivor in the petitioner’s name of a suit in equity.
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PETITION FOB WEIT OF MANDAMUS. This is a petition for a writ of mandamus, against the judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri directing the revivor in the petitioner’s name of a suit in equity. The facts, about which there is no dispute, are these: In 1916 the District Court by a decree in a pending suit awarded 195,770, then in the registry of the court, to five solicitors as the balance due to them collectively for services in the suit, and directed that this sum be apportioned among them according to the relative amount and value of the services of each, due regard…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
It now appears that the petition gives an inadmissible coloring to the matter in respect of which it seeks relief. We say this because the petition implies that the court did not consider but summarily rejected the püblic administrator’s motion for a revivor in his' name, whereas in fact the court heard oral argument on the motion, gave time for filing and received briefs thereon, and ultimately denied the motion for reasons given in a memorandum opinion. The petition makes ho reference to this; neither does it mention the conflicting motion by the temporary administratrix which was heard at…
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