AMCHANITZKY v. SINNOTT

No. 223.

69 F.2d 97 (1934)

AMCHANITZKY v. SINNOTT.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

February 5, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Amchanitzky, of Brooklyn, N. Y., pro se.

Howard W. Ameli, U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Herbert H. Kellogg and Emanuel Bublick, Asst. U. S. Attys., both of Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for appellee.

Before SWAN, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and MACK, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The defendant's motion to dismiss was grounded on (1) lack of jurisdiction, and (2) failure of the petition to state a cause of action. The District Court granted the motion upon the second ground without passing upon the former. 3 F.Supp. 993. It should have based dismissal upon lack of jurisdiction. The rule that District Courts of the United States have no jurisdiction in original cases of mandamus is too firmly...

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