Golden v. Mitchell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff asks for a writ of mandamus directing the recently appointed judge of the fifteenth judicial district to hear, consider and determine on its merits the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial in a case which was tried prior to defendant’s appointment.

During the year 1919, the regular district judge, Hon. R. M. Pickier, who had presided for many years in that district (Smith and other counties), suffered from inpaired health, and some time late in that year, Charles L. Kagey, Esquire, a Beloit lawyer, was elected judge pro tempore in…