Ex Parte Ashton

THOMAS, Justice.

This is a petition for mandamus to compel the vacation of an order of consolidation of pending causes growing out of a motorcar collision on the public highway.

The circuit judge so ordering acted under the provisions of section 1 of the act of September 13, 1935, (Gen.Acts 1935, p. 1010), which reads as follows:

“An Act To authorize the Circuit Courts in Counties having a population of 300,000 or more, according to the last or any future Federal census, to make such orders and rules concerning proceedings in causes of like nature, or relative to the same question, as may be…