State ex rel. Hersner v. Arthur

The opinion of the court ivas delivered by

Dunbar, C. J.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus. The petition alleges that an action for the foreclosure of a mortgage, in which petitioner was plaintiff and B. Martin and Mary Martin, his wife, were defendants, was tried on the 23d day of May, 1893, and on said day a decree was duly rendered and signed by Jesse Arthur, judge of Spokane county aforesaid; that on the trial of said cause petitioner, B. Martin and wife, and several other witnesses on the part of both plaintiff and defendants, testified and gave evidence, but that none of the…