IN RE DEBS, PETITIONER

No. 11. Original.

158 U.S. 564 (1895)

IN RE DEBS, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 27, 1895.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lyman Trumbull for petitioners.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Whitney for the United States.

Mr. S.S. Gregory for the petitioners.

Mr. Edwin Walker for the United States.

Mr. Attorney General for the United States.

Mr. C.S. Darrow for the petitioners.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The case presented by the bill is this: The United States, finding that the interstate transportation of persons and property, as well as the carriage of the mails, is forcibly obstructed, and that a combination and conspiracy exists to subject the control of such transportation to the will of the conspirators, applied to one of their courts,...

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