Thayer v. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute R. R.

How courts have described this case

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• holding judges were subject to impeachment for a misdemeanor in office and “liable to removal for any reasonable cause, not being sufficient ground of impeachment, upon address to the Governor by two-thirds of each house of the General Assembly[.]”
• “by the writ of mandamus it [the judiciary] may coerce a ministerial officer, though of the executive department, to the performance of a legal duty”
• definitions for “misdemeanor in office,” “misfeasance in public office,” and “official misconduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).