Hemphill v. Collins

* This was an original proceeding, commenced in the Appellate Court for the First District, by Joseph Hemphill and George E. Hamlin, petitioners, against Lorin C. Collins, respondent, and is a petition for mandamus to compel respondent, one of the judges of the circuit court of Cook county, to forthwith vacate a certain order made in a case lately pending in the circuit court over which respondent presided as judge, wherein petitioners were plaintiffs and Joanna O’Brien was defendant, striking the cause from the trial calendar of such, circuit court, and to reinstate the same, and proceed…