People ex rel. Horn v. Wayne Circuit Judge

This is a demurrer to an application by relator for a mandamus to require respondent to vacate an order of court of the 27th of May last, ordering relator to give security in addition to such as had been previously given and accepted, under the sanction of the clerk in certain proceedings taken against the steamer “Excelsior,” under the water craft law, being chapter 210 of the Compiled Laws.

*16April 25th, 1878, “The People’s Ice Company,” a domestic corporation, filed complaint with the clerk against the steamer and set up a lien of $25,000 for damages charged to have been caused by the…