Easter v. Traylor

This is an action of mandamus, brought originally in this court by James H. Easter against J. G. Traylor, clerk of the district court of Lyon county, to compel the defendant to issue an order of delivery in a replevin action brought in the district court of that county by Easter against Waldo Worster, the sheriff of that county, for the recovery of certain personal property. The property in question is forty-five barrels and sixty-two cases of bottled beer. The defendant Traylor in his return to the alternative writ of mandamus, answers that the property in question is and was in the custody…