General
Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Holland, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al.
345 U.S. 933·Supreme Court of the United States·1953
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Opinion
No. 614.
Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Holland, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al.
Charles F. Short, Jr. and Miller Walton for petitioner.
Eugene Cook, Attorney General of Georgia, M. H. Black-shear, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Lamar W. Sizemore, Assistant Attorney General, for respondents.
[MAJORITY]
The petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is granted limited to question 1 presented by the petition for the writ, i. e.:
“1. Is mandamus an appropriate remedy to vacate the order of severance and transfer as an unwarranted renunciation of jurisdiction which would compel needless duplicity of trials and appeals to enforce the right to a single trial against all defendants in a proper forum?”