Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York July 1, 1900 (People ex rel. Sayville Steamboat Co. v. Kempner)

Rumsey, J.:

A moment’s consideration of the well-settled principles which control the granting of a writ of mandamus would seem to have been sufficient to convince the appellant that there was no merit in his appeal. He. was a notary public who was called upon to take and did take an acknowledgment of a paper which was to be *122recorded in the Custom House.