State ex rel. Stewart v. Reid

MONROE J.

Relator alleges, in substance, that as acting district attorney he brought suit against David J. Reid to have him declared ineligible to the office of sheriff; that, on December —, 1905, the judge of the district court for the Eighteenth judicial district, in which the suit was brought, was recused, and Hon. J. B. Lee, judge of the district court for an adjoining district, was appointed in his stead; that, on January 12, 1907, he applied to Judge Lee to transfer said case, agreeably to section 5 of Act No. 40, p. 39, of 1880, which provides for the transfer of recused cases, if they…