HOLZENDORF v. HAY

No. 210.

194 U.S. 373 (1904)

UNITED STATES ex rel. HOLZENDORF v. HAY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 16, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R.S. Tharin for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General McReynolds for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The relief demanded was denied by the court below substantially upon the ground that no legal duty rested upon the defendant to do the act the performance of which it was the purpose of the proceeding to coerce, because such act concerned the political department of the government, involving solely the exercise of official discretion...

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