Board of Commissioners v. State ex rel. City of Washington

The city of Washington, as relator, caused an alternative writ of mandate to issue against the appellant Board of Commissioners, to compel the board to erect a bridge upon a street of said city, where the same crosses a running stream.

A demurrer having been overruled to the alternative writ, a return thereto in five paragraphs was filed by the appellant. Other pleadings were also filed, and the court, at the request of the appellee, made a special finding of the facts, being substantially the same facts as alleged in the alternative writ. Conclusions of law were then found in favor of the…