United States Ex Rel. Greathouse v. Dern

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• emphasizing that the “allowance [of mandamus] is controlled by equitable principles”
• title to and sovereignty over the portion of the Potomac River which lies within the boundaries of the District of Columbia vested in the United States by cession from the State of Maryland
• “Although the remedy by mandamus is at law, its allowance is controlled by equitable principles ... and it may be refused for reasons comparable to those which would lead a court of equity in the exercise of a sound discretion, to withhold its protection of an undoubted legal right.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).