People Ex Rel. Bender v. Davis

We granted leave, and a petition for an original writ of mandamus was filed in this court directed against Joe A. Davis, Max F. Allaben and William J. Fulton, as judges of the Appellate Court for the Third District. The relator seeks to have expunged from the records of that court an order which permitted the Alton Railroad Company to file there its notice of appeal within one year from the rendition of a judgment for relator in the trial court. The company had previously appealed by filing its notice in the trial court within ninety days from the date of the judgment. However, it failed to…