In re Merkle

Opinion by

Sempson, C.:

This is an original application in this court by the petitioner, Eichard L. Merkle, for a writ of habeas corpus, and to be discharged from the custody of the sheriff of Sedgwick county. A notary public before whom the deposition of Merkle was being taken on behalf of the plaintiffs in an action then and now pending in the Sedgwick district court, wherein Charles Sullivan et al. are plaintiffs and the Steinhauser Merkle Supply Company is a defendant, had committed him to the jail of the county for refusing to answer certain questions propounded to him as such witness by…