People ex rel. Chase v. County Court

The questions presented on-this record arise on a demurrer to the return of respondents, to an alternative writ of mandamus, issued out of this court, on the petition of Táylor G. Chase, and' directed to the county court of the county of. Macoupin, to compel them to vacate and annul a certain order entered by that court on its records, at the March term, 1870, by which a former order of that court, entered at the October term, 1869, was declared illegal and proceedings under it arrested.

The facts of the case are, briefly, that the relator was a holder of what is called a court house bond,…