Legal Opinion
Application of Thompson
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 3, 1957No. M-1885PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DUSEN, District Judge.
Petitioner, a civilian employee at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (hereinafter called “Shipyard”) and a resident of New Jersey, seeks a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release from the custody of a Philadelphia Deputy Sheriff who seized him at the Shipyard pursuant to a writ of capias ad respondendum issued by the Philadelphia Municipal Court. The capias writ was issued to recover fines and penalties totaling $700, 1 imposed for failure of petitioner to file a return and pay a tax of lj4% 2 on his wages earned at the Shipyard, within Philadelphia, for the seven…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Darr v. BurfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Ex Parte RoyallSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Ex Parte HawkSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Stefanelli v. MinardSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Graves v. New York Ex Rel. O'KeefeSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
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3Cited by19 opinions
- City of Philadelphia v. KennyCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- State v. AllardSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1973
- City of Philadelphia v. StadlerNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1978
- United States Ex Rel. George E. Thompson v. William Lennox, Sheriff of the City of PhiladelphiaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1958
- City of Philadelphia v. SmithSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1980
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