MR. JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
We will first dispose of the claim that this court is without jurisdiction to review the judgment, and that hence the writ of error should be dismissed. The contention is based upon the following: 1, that the proceeding below, being for a mandamus, was not a "suit" within the meaning of that term as employed in section 709 of the Revised Statutes; and 2, because no Federal...
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