People Ex Rel. Woll v. Graber

This is an original proceeding in mandamus. Petitioner, J. Albert Woll, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, seeks the writ to compel respondent, as judge' of the superior court of Cook county, to expunge from the records of that court, as void for want of jurisdiction to enter it, an order entered by him as such judge on May 9, 1945, in the case pending before him of Walter H. Scott, doing business as Walter H. Scott Engineering Service, plaintiff, v. James I. Silvers, Howard Clock Corporation, an Illinois corporation, and Francis R. Johlie, defendants, No.…