People ex rel. National Surety Co. v. Shumate

The respondent was judge of the district court of the ninth district.

In the case of The Board of County Commissioners of Garfield County v. Sheely and The National Surety Company, pending in that district, it was suggested to him that he was prejudiced and that a motion would be made for another judge. Afterwards one of the attorneys for the defendant company, as appears in an order entered February 13, 1918, requested him to waive the motion and call another judge without it. He consented to do this and in October or September, 1917, requested another judge to act, having announced to…