State ex rel. Proctor v. Cotton

This is an application for a mandamus to compel the defendant, who is a justice of the peace, to prepare and certify a transcript of his proceedings in the case of Fred K. Porter v. Charles W. Proctor, pending before said justice, to another justice of the peace named, an affidavit for a change of venue having been filed by the defendant in that case, and a tender of certain costs then accrued.

It appears that prior to the time set for the trial of the cause the plaintiff in that ease filed a motion for a continuance for thirty days; that on the return day the defendant in that case filed an…