Mr. Justice SWAYNE stated the case and delivered the opinion of the court.
A rule was granted by this court that the district judge show cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue agreeably to the prayer of the petitioners.
The petition upon which the rule was founded discloses, so far as it is necessary to state them, the following facts:
The United States instituted in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana...
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