Decatur v. Paulding

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1840-03-18

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Mr. Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the Court. This case is-brought here by a writ of error, from the judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, refusing to award a peremptory mandamus. The material facts in the case arp as follow: By an act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March, 1837,…

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