HUNTER v. WOOD

No. 474.

209 U.S. 205 (1908)

HUNTER, SHERIFF OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, v. WOOD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 23, 1908.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. E.J. Justice, Mr. J.H. Merrimon and Mr. C.B. Aycock for appellant on the point of whether the remedy of habeas corpus was proper.

Mr. Alfred P. Thom, Mr. Walker D. Hines and Mr. Alexander P. Humphrey for appellee on the same point.


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

After the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the United States had attached by the filing of the bill of complaint in the case already mentioned, of the Southern Railway Company v. McNeil and others, members of the Corporation Commission, and after the issuing and service of the injunction, as above stated, the defendant...

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