Marshall v. State ex rel. Cook

Perkins, J. —

This was a motion in the Parke Circuit Court for a mandamus to John Marshall, judge of the Parke Probate Court. The motion was granted. The casé is as follows:

At the August term, 1845, of the Parke Circuit Court, John P. Usher, an attorney of said Court, made and filed the following affidavit, on which the motion for a mandamus was based: “State of Indiana, county of Parke, ss. John P. Usher, being duly sworn, says that he is one of the solicitors of Denny Cook, who, heretofore, in the year -, filed his petition in the Probate Court of said county of Parke for the payment of a…