Mast v. Washtenaw Circuit Judge

This is an application for a mandamus to require the respondent to proceed to punish George H. Purchase and Elmer C. Glenn for contempt of court. The alleged contempt was a failure to pay over the amount of a certain decree pronounced by the circuit court in chancery in a case in which the relator in this proceeding *486is complainant. The bill was filed alleging that the complainant, the defendants Purchase and Glenn, and a large number of other parties, who were made defendants because of interest in the subject-matter, joined in the enterprise of obtaining an option to purchase a so-called oil…