Case Name: Ex parte Dugan
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1864-12
Citations: 2 Wall. 134
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ex parte Dugan.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 69
Pages: 134–134

Head Matter:
Ex parte Dugan.
On a mere petition for a certiorari, the court, according' to its better and more regular practice, will decline to hear -the case on its merits, even -though the counsel for the petitioner produce a copy of the record admitted on the other side-to he a true one. It will wait for a return, in form, from the court below.
On a petition for a certiorari to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to send up the record of their proceedings upon a habeas corpus issued from that court upon the application of the petitioner, it was stated by Mr. J. H. Bradley, counsel of the petitioner, that a copy of the record had been obtained; and he asked this court, upon the admission of the Attorney-G-eneral that the copy was-a correct one, to hear the case without a return from the court below. The Attorney-General, on the other hand, while admitting the copy of .the record produced to be. correct, moved the court, for reasons which he laid, to continue the case.

Opinion:
BY THE COURT.
"We think it the better, as well as the more regular practice, to await the return of the court below before taking any action on the- merits. The certiorari will,' therefore,, be now awarded. Upon the coming in of the return the case will be regularly before us; and the motion for continuance made by the Attorney-General will then be disposed of.
Action accordingly.