Page:United States Reports, Volume 209.djvu/343

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209 U.S. tion of it made applicable to os?es already existing and other portions applicable only to the future. We are convinced Congress did not intend such separation. Viewing the whole section, we think Congress meant teat only in future cases should the provisions of the amendment apply, although some trifling portion of those provisions might be regarded, tech- nically, as in the nature of procedure. It is therefore wiser to hold the entire section governed by the usual rule and as applying only to the future. The judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals was right, andis NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE UNI- TED STATES OF AMERICA v. NATIONAL LIFE IN- SURANCE COMPANY. APPEAL FLOM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE BEVENTH CIRCUIT. No. 1?,2. Argued Msr?h O, l?--l?eided Aprfi ?, i008. Evem ff the powex to review the determination o! an executive department exi?, where the complainant is merely appealing from the discretion of the department to the discretion of the court, the court should not inter- Jece by inlunci/c? where the complainant ? no dear legal right to the relief sought. Where a corporation has taken the same name as that of an older corpo- ration the fact that it has a greater quantity o! mail matter does not ?fy the court in interfering with a special order of the Pcet Office p?rtme?t directing the delivery of matter not addressed by street and number in accordance with Par. 4 of �? of the General Regulations of 1902 to the one first adopting the name in the place of address. T?E appellant commenced this suit in equity against the defendants on the eighteenth day of July, 1905, in the Circuit Court of the United State? for the Northern District of Illinois,