Reid v. Wayne Circuit Judge

This is an application for a mandamus to compel respondent to set aside an order fixing the penalty of an appeal bond at the sum of $30,000. Relators are the defendants in a chancery suit brought by Edmund Hall. The court below rendered a decree finding that relators were indebted to said Hall, on an accounting, for a large sum of money, and that this indebtedness is secured by certain property. It decrees that this property shall be sold, the proceeds applied to reduce said indebtedness, and declares that said Hall is entitled to a personal decree against the defendants for the balance. The…