Romanzo Bunn
How Judge Bunn decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Bunn required mutual obligations before enforcing a requirements contract beyond goods actually ordered.
“Further than that it can have no binding force, for want of mutuality.”
Bunn treated reservation fishing rights as controlling over an overzealous state enforcement action.
“the prisoner’s arrest was the result of overzeal on the pari of a fish and game warden, which may he excusable, but is not justifiable in law.”
Procedural preferences
Bunn allowed curable bankruptcy-petition defects to be corrected instead of dismissing the proceeding.
“The motion to dismiss is overruled, and upon request of counsel for petitioners they are allowed ten days in which to file an amended petition curing the several defects complained of.”
Bunn declined to decide abstract appellate questions after events made effective relief impossible.
“This court cannot be led to the decision of abstract questions of law”
Cautions
Bunn rejected equitable jurisdiction when an ordinary legal action supplied a complete remedy.
“The remedy at law would be just as adequate in the one case as the other.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“I think the exemption should be allowed.”
“The decision of the court is that the claims of the bankrupts to an exemption of two hundred dollars each, out of the partnership property, under the exemption laws of this state and the bankrupt law cannot be allowed.”
“The motion to dismiss is overruled”
“they are allowed ten days in which to file an amended petition curing the several defects complained of.”
“There must also be a decree for a perpetual injunction restraining the further prosecution of the action brought in the state court.”
The text is a jury charge followed by a verdict and a panel’s new-trial ruling, not a party-motion opinion attributable solely to Bunn.
“the decree of the court was right, and must be affirmed.”
“The judgment of the district court is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings according to law.”
“The plaintiff’s bill will be dismissed, with costs.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No assigned docket records were returned for Bunn’s tenure, so no caseload mix or case-duration summary is available.
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