People ex rel. Germania Fire Insurance v. Circuit Judge

This is an application for a mandamus to compel the circuit judge to vacate an order requiring the relator to produce certain papers to enable the defendants in a suit brought by relator to prepare for their defense.

The suit was brought upon a bond given by Alpheus G. Smith as principal and Jonathan Boyce and Charles D. Nelson as sureties, to the Germania Eire Insurance Company, the Hanover Eire Insurance Company, the Niagara Eire Insurance Company and the Eepublic Eire Insurance Company, all of the city of New York, and by which the obligors bound themselves in the sum of five hundred…