EX PARTE DAVIS

No. 27, Original.

262 U.S. 274 (1923)

EX PARTE: IN THE MATTER OF DAVIS, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS, ETC., PETITIONER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 21, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T. Catesby Jones, with whom Mr. James W. Ryan, Mr. Evan Shelby and Mr. D. Roger Englar were on the briefs, for petitioner.

Mr. Mark Ash, with whom Mr. Edward Ash was on the briefs, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition or mandamus commanding the judges of the District Court, Southern District of New York, not to take further steps in an admiralty proceeding instituted by the New Jersey Shipbuilding & Dredging Company to recover from him for damage inflicted upon its scow by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company's steamtug "Mahanoy" while under federal control, or in the alternative...

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