RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order awarding a peremptory writ in an original action in mandamus commenced in the court below. At the threshold of the proceedings the jurisdiction of the court was challenged by motion to dismiss, and, in our opinion, the challenge should have been sustained. Discussing the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States in original mandamus proceedings, in Covington & C. Bridge Co. v. Hager,
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