McDuffie v. Cook

— This is an application by the appellant for a mandamus, directed to the appellee, Cook, who was clerk of the Circuit Court of Lowndes county, to compel him to approve a 'bond, offered to be given as security for costs, in order to contest an election for the office of judge of probate of that county. Cook declined to approve the bond, as his return to the rule nisi shows, for two reasons : first, because it was not such a bond as he, the respondent, was authorized and required by law to approve; second, because he did not deem the sureties tendered sufficient for the said bond, or for the…