People ex rel. Taylor v. Judge of the St. Clair Circuit

Application for Mandamus. Eelator commenced suit by attachment against one Marcus Young in the St. Clair circuit. Young, after having moved the court to quash the proceedings for insufficiency of the affidavit and failed in his motion, applied to the circuit court commissioner of the county to dissolve the attachment, and the commissioner dissolved it for insufficiency of the affidavit in form. The relator thereupon applied to the circuit judge for a certiorari to review the proceedings before the commissioner, which writ was granted. When the cause came on for hearing, however, the circuit…