William Squire Kenyon
Judge Kenyon no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Kenyon decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Kenyon treated the adequacy of development across an oil-and-gas tract as a factual question.
“What is due and proper development of the entire tract is a question of fact.”
He regarded abundant supporting evidence as sufficient to leave a dispute with the jury.
“we would have no hesitancy in holding that there was abundance of evidence to warrant submitting the case to the jury.”
Procedural preferences
He treated an unraised objection to an information as waived on appeal.
“We regard the questions raised by this writ of error as technical, trivial, and devoid of merit.”
He used mandamus to require a district court to restore and adjudicate a case it had removed from its calendar.
“A writ of mandamus will issue in this case, directing respondent to reinstate upon the docket and calendar of the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota, Eourth Division, the case of A. D. Schendel, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Andrew J. Baker, Deceased, v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, and to proceed to hear, try, and have the case determined in the usual course of judicial procedure.”
Cautions
He applied harmless-error principles to objections that did not affect substantial rights.
“It is such objections as this that section 269 of the Judicial Code (28 USCA § 391) seeks to eliminate.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“It is so ordered, and, thus modified, the judgment and decree of the trial court is affirmed.”
“The decree of the trial court in each case is affirmed.”
“A writ of mandamus will issue in this case, directing respondent to reinstate upon the docket and calendar of the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota, Eourth Division, the case of A. D. Schendel, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Andrew J. Baker, Deceased, v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, and to proceed to hear, try, and have the case determined in the usual course of judicial procedure.”
“The judgment is reversed, and the case remanded, with directions to enter a decree for appellants enjoining, as prayed in their bill of complaint, the collection of the unpaid portion of the taxes and assessments complained of.”
“The same is therefore reversed, and the ease is remanded for further proceedings in harmony with the views expressed in this opinion.”
“In accordance with the decision in that case the judgment in this is affirmed.”
“Its judgment is reversed, and the ease is remanded, with directions to the said District Court to issue the writ of habeas corpus prayed for, and to discharge the appellant from the custody of appellee.”
“The decree dismissing the intervening petition is reversed, and the case remanded.”
Caseload & timing
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A historical record
Judge Kenyon no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.