Stockwell v. Crawford

The plaintiff herein applied to this court for. an alternative writ of mandamus directing the Honorable W. O. Crawford, judge of the tenth judicial district, to immediately reconvene the district court for the county of Billings and proceed to the trial of the cause of Stockwell v. Haigh, by jury, without delay, and to fix some reasonable time and proceed to the trial of said cause; or to show cause for not obeying the command of the writ. The judge of that district made due return to the writ, and it rests upon us to determine whether the action of Judge Crawford in adjourning, sine die, the…