People ex rel. Reiter v. Lupe

This is an original action in mandamus instituted to require respondent, Judge John J. Lupe, of the superior court of Cook County, to expunge from the record an order he entered on May 11, 1949, in a proceeding wherein petitioner was plaintiff and others hereinafter named were defendants. The cause is submitted to us on the petition filed in this court and the answer of respondent, the subject matter of the controversy consisting entirely of court records.

The basic action, from which this mandamus proceeding stems, was an action for an accounting commenced by the petitioner in 1936 against…