State ex rel. Covey v. Gaslin

This is an application for a mandamus to compel the defendant, as judge of the district court of Franklin county, to sign a bill of exceptions. The petition for a mandamus was filed in this court on the 19th day of January, 1888, and the relator employed a law firm of Lincoln to attend to the case for her. For some cause, which does not clearly appear, that firm failed to prosecute the action, and in April, 1888, on motion of the defendant’s attorney, the action was dismissed for want of prosecution. The *72attorney of record for the relator thereupon filed an affidavit showing the .above facts,…