State ex rel. Bankers Reserve Life Ass'n v. Scott

The question raised by this record is not a very perplexing one. The action is an application to this court, in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, for a writ of mandamus commanding Hon. Cunningham R. Scott, one of the judges of the district court for the fourth judicial district, to allow and sign a bill of exceptions. The respondent, in his return to the alternative writ, sets out at length the proceedings had before him in the case of Finn against Bankers Reserve Life Association, and, in justification of his refusal to sign the bill of exceptions presented to him for allowance in…