Union Pacific Railroad v. Stratemeyer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Union Pacific Railroad Company brings this proceeding in mandamus against state and county officers to require the recording of a mortgage given by it upon real estate in Kansas and other property, without the payment of a registration fee (no reference being made here or elsewhere herein to the charge for the register’s service in recording) upon the ground that it was given merely for the purpose of adding new property as security for the debt secured by an earlier mortgage which had already been recorded. The facts are agreed to and the…