State ex rel. Brooking v. Branyan

The relator applies to this court for a writ of mandate requiring appellee, as judge of the Huntington Circuit Court, to make his ruling on a motion for a new trial, and to render final judgment in a certain action pending in that court. It appears that in March, 1902, the relator filed an application in the Huntington Circuit Court to have a certain person declared of unsound mind. The case was submitted to a jury for trial on April 2, 1902, and two days thereafter, the jury having been unable to agree, was discharged. On the 26th day of June, 1902, the case was again submitted to a jury,…