Pipher

Mandate. The petition shows that plaintiff is an official reporter of the superior court and that defendant is judge of the superior court of Amador county; on May 1, 1905, defendant appointed petitioner as the official reporter, pro tempore, of said court, and he thereupon entered upon the discharge of his duties as such reporter; from May 1, to May 17, 1905, both inclusive, plaintiff, under order of said court, took down in shorthand all the proceedings at the trial then pending in said court, in the case entitled, The People plaintiff, v. F. N. Staples, defendant, charged with the crime of murder; during the trial, upon the order of the court, plaintiff transcribed and made two copies of the testimony of certain witnesses taken at said trial and delivered to the district attorney and to the attorney for the defendant one copy each of such transcription, containing twelve hundred folios of one hundred words per folio, and also transcribed excerpts of certain other testimony, and delivered one copy each to the district attorney and defendant’s attorney, said transcription containing one hundred and fifty folios of one hundred words per folio; on May 17, 1905, plaintiff presented…