State ex rel. Vail v. Draper

This is a petition for mandamus upon the State auditor to compel him to issue to the relator a warrant for a quarter’s salary alleged to be due the relator as judge of the Twenty-sixth, formerly Fifteenth, judicial circuit of this State. The facts of the case, as they appear from the record, are as follows: Under the law as it existed up to the 15th of March, 1872, the Fifteenth judicial circuit was composed of the counties of Iron, Reynolds, Washington and Jefferson. At the general election for judges, held in November, 1868, the relator was elected judge, and com*355missioned as such judge, o£…