State Ex Rel. Tunnicliffe v. Koonce

In order to test a question of jurisdiction an alternative writ of mandamus was issued by this Court to require the judge of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit to entertain jurisdiction, which he had declined to do, of a cause pending in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit between the liquidator of an insolvent bank and a debtor of the bank, in which cause the judge of the latter circuit had certified that he is disqualified to act judicially "by reason of the fact that he was a debtor of the" bank "at the time it closed its doors * * * and is now a debtor of said" bank; and that therefore he has "a…