New York Supreme Court May 3, 1858 (People ex rel. Woodworth v. Burrows)

By the Court, Hogeboom, J.

The learned and venerable relator has presented an argument of much ingenuity and *91force in favor of the allowance of a peremptory mandamus, and it would afford the court high gratification, if, in consideration of his eminent and faithful services as a former justice of the supreme court, it were possible, consistently with the rules of law, to award the mandamus in