United States ex rel. Widenmann v. Colby
District Court, District of Columbia
Appeal from.the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Petition by the United States, on the relation of Robert A. Widenmann, for writ of mandamus against Robert Eansing, as Secretary of State of the United States. Rule denied, and petition dismissed, and relator appeals. Pending the appeal, Bainbridge Colby succeeded to the office of Secretary of State, and the case was revived against him.
1Opinion of the Court
SMYTH, Chief Justice.
Widenmann fded his petition in the Supreme Court of the District against Robert Lansing, as Secretary of State, and asked for a rule upon him to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue commanding him, as Secretary of State, to cancel the proclamation and certificate theretofore issued by Erank L. Polk, as Acting Secretary of State, in pursuance of section 205 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (Comp. St. § 303), to the effect that the proposed Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States had “become valid, to all intents and purposes,…
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