Fox v. Baker

This cause was commenced by an application for a writ of mandate against the defendant, as Governor of the State of Indiana, requiring him to show cause why he should not issue to the plaintiff a commission as Judge of the Criminal Court of Wayne county, to which office he claims to have been elected at the October election 1872.

The defendant filed an answer setting out the reasons of his refusal to issue the commission.

An agreed statement of facts was filed, upon which the cause was submitted at Special Term, and a finding, and judgment rendered thereon for the defendant.

A motion for a new…