MITCHELL v. DISTRICT COURT OF UNITED STATES FOR SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Misc. No. 875.

270 F.2d 70 (1959)

Bernard MITCHELL, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT OF UNITED STATES FOR SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

August 11, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monroe & Chula, Santa Ana, Cal., for petitioner.

Malcolm Davis, Los Angeles, Cal., for Railroad Co.

No appearance for respondent.

Before STEPHENS, POPE and HAMLIN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioner asks leave to file a petition for an extraordinary writ (which he calls a Writ of Certiorari) to prohibit the District Court for the Southern District of California from proceeding with a new trial in a case entitled Mitchell v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., and others.

It appears from the proposed petition that after trial of that case in the respondent court a jury returned a verdict on May 14, 1958 awarding plaintiff $12,000 damages...

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