People ex rel. Crofut v. Gibbons

Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an application for a peremptory writ of mandamus against the respondent, who is one of the Circuit Court judges of Cook county, requiring him to sign and seal a bill of exceptions, showing all the evidence offered in the cause of Frederick C. Aldrich vs. the relator and others, in the said Circuit Court, including all the evidence offered at the time of the rendition of the judgment, as well as all the evidence offered upon the motion to set aside said judgment.

The judgment was entered by confession upon promissory…