The Boca Mill Co. v. Curry

This is an original proceeding instituted in this court by plaintiff, a California corporation, to obtain a writ of mandate requiring the defendant to file in his office a certified copy of a certificate of extension of its corporate existence.

The question presented by this proceeding is as to the constitutionality of an act of the legislature, approved March 18, 1907, purporting to amend section 401 of the Civil Code (Stats. 1907, p. 344), by the terms of which amendment “every corporation heretofore or hereafter formed, and existing under the laws of this state, may at any time prior to the…