Hawes v. People ex rel. Pulver

On the 9th day of November, 1887, the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of Emilie Pulver, filed in the Appellate Court for the First District a petition for a mandamus against the Hon. Kirk Hawes, as judge of the Superior Court of Cook county, to compel him to sign a bill of exceptions in a certain cause lately heard before him in said court, wherein the said Emilie Pulver was plaintiff, and the Rochester German Insurance Company was defendant. No appeal had been taken in the case to the Appellate Court, nor was it otherwise, or for any purpose, pending in that court. • The…