Tidey v. Kent Circuit Judge

Relator was arrested upon a 'capias ad respondendum sued out of the circuit court of Kent county in an action there commenced against him by Charles 0. Smedley as plaintiff. He thereupon furnished bail in the sum of $500, that being the amount indorsed upon said writ by the circuit judge, and later moved the court, through his counsel, for an order quashing the writ and dismissing all proceedings in said cause. This motion was denied, and relator seeks by mandamus from this court to compel the circuit court to grant said motion. The case is now before, us on return to an order from this court…