Reynolds v. Harrison

in this cause the alternative writ of mandamus was issued on the 23rd day of November, A. D. 1925, directed to the respondent commanding him as Circuit Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida to take jurisdiction of a certain cause there pending and to enter a decree pro confesso therein as far as said cause related to unknown defendants.

It appears conclusively from the petition herein as well as from the return to the alternative writ:

“1. That J. W. Reynolds filed on the 30th day of September, A. D. 1925, a suit in chancery in the Circuit Court of Manatee County, Florida, to…