Mayor of Paterson v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

This case is not properly before the court.

It is a writ of error directed to the Supreme Court, requiring it to send up an order made by it authorizing the issuance *427of a mandamus. But the process does not seem to have been served upon that tribunal, and consequently there is no return made by it. The writ, as appears from endorsements upon it, seems to have been served, not upon the court to which it- is addressed, but upon the defendant in this suit, and in this condition has been filed in the office of the secretary of state,…