State ex rel. Yelvington v. Cooper

The Chief-Justice delivered the opinion of the court.

Relator applied to the Circuit Judge of the Fourth Circuit for a mandamus to compel the County Judge to make an entry in his records that an appeal had been taken from the decree of said County Judge refusing to set aside the probate of a will on relator’s application.

Relator alleges that/on the day of the announcement of the decree, and in open court “ his attorney requested the said Judge sitting as aforesaid to make an entry of the fact of his appeal in the docket of his court, whereupon the said Judge, sitting as aforesaid, informed and…