State ex rel. Kane v. Larrabee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
MANDAMUS against Hon. - Chas. Ii. Larrabee, judge of the third judicial circuit, setting forth that at a circuit court for the county of Washington, in which he was holding a term, an application was made by the counsel for the relator for the dismissal of a bill in chancery in which he, Kane, was one of the defendants, on the ground that no one appeared on the part of the complainants in the cause, when it was called on the calendar for hearing.
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MANDAMUS against Hon. - Chas. Ii. Larrabee, judge of the third judicial circuit, setting forth that at a circuit court for the county of Washington, in which he was holding a term, an application was made by the counsel for the relator for the dismissal of a bill in chancery in which he, Kane, was one of the defendants, on the ground that no one appeared on the part of the complainants in the cause, when it was called on the calendar for hearing. The court of which the respondent was judge, granted an order dismissing the cause absolutely. On the next day in open court the said circuit judge…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitoN, J.
The return of the judge to the alternative writ of mandamus shows, that on the 18th day of April, 1851, at a term of the circuit court for Washington county, the case of Calvin W. Howe et al. v. George Cogswell and Charles I. Kane, was called in its order on the calendar; that, upon the failure of the complainants to appear, or any one of them, E. Gr. Ryan, *168Esq., of counsel for said Kane, moved for a decree dismissing the bill of complaint in said cause, for want of prosecution;» that the said judge directed the said E. Gr. Ryan, Esq., to draw up such decree; that the said E. Gr. Ryan, Esq.,…
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