State ex rel. Curtis v. Howe

This was an alternative writ of mandate, issued by the Marion Superior Court at general term, in the name- of the State of Indiana, upon the relation of Lyman W. Curtis, against the Hon. Daniel W. Howe, one of the judges of that court, the object of which was to require him to proceed with the trial of a certain cause pend*19ing before him in said court, at special term, in which the relator herein was plaintiff, and one Marcus L. Hare was defendant.

The defendant, Howe, made return to the writ, and such proceedings were thereupon had as that a writ of mandate was refused, and judgment was…