Ex parte Thornton

This is an application by Robert S. Thornton for a rule to be directed to the honorable chancellor of the eastern chancery division of this State, sitting for the county of Cherokee, to show cause why a peremptory mandamus shall not be issued against him in order to compel him to reinstate on the docket of the chancery court of said county of Cherokee a certain cross-bill filed by said Robert S. Thornton on the 23d day of November, 1870, to the original bill of complaint of Mary A. Kyle, by her next friend Robert B. Kyle, complainant, against said Robert S. Thornton and Nat. M. Thornton, as…