Chapman v. Snow

This petition for mandamus was by the Attorney General, upon relation of two individuals, to a Justice of the Superior Court, who granted the alternative writ. See, pertaining to procedure, Hamlin, Attorney General v. Higgins, 102 Me., 510, 67 A., 625; Libby v. Water Company, 125 Me., 144, 131 A., 862.

Then came, in this order, return, answer, issue, hearing, decree, exceptions, and their certifications. R. S., Chap. 116, Sec. 18; Lawrence v. Richards, 111 Me., 95, 88 A., 92.

In the bill of exceptions, the first is rested definitely that refusal to award peremptory writ was a clear abuse of…