Ohlson v. Durfrey
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit .court of Madison county. Hon. Eobert Powell, Judge. Mandamus by Ohlson and another, appellants, against E. W. Durfrey, circuit clerk of Madison county, to compel the issuance to relators of certificates for their attendance as witnesses in the circuit court of Madison county.
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From the circuit .court of Madison county. Hon. Eobert Powell, Judge. Mandamus by Ohlson and another, appellants, against E. W. Durfrey, circuit clerk of Madison county, to compel the issuance to relators of certificates for their attendance as witnesses in the circuit court of Madison county. The petition alleged that petitioners were duly summoned as witnesses in a certain case, named, while they were in Madison county, where the court was held, and that they afterwards attended the trial one day, and duly proved their attendance, but that the clerk, appellee Durfrey, refused to issue a…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
(See Haskins v. Board of Supervisors, 51 Miss., 409, and vol. 13, Enc. Pl. & Prac., p. 646.)
Affirmed.
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