Robinson v. Richardson

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus, to be addressed to the respondent, requiring him, in the discharge of his official duties, to receive the complaint theretofore presented to him by the petitioners, and to hear the evidence which they shall produce in support of the allegations therein set forth; and if he shall thereupon be satisfied that they have reasonable cause for the belief therein by them expressed, to grant to them *455as assignees of the estate of Isaac E. Stevens, an insolvent debtor, or to the messenger appointed to take possession of his estate, a warrant to search in the…