State ex rel. Jones v. Williams

Irvine, C.

This was an application to the district court of Lancaster county for á writ of mandamus to compel the respondent to surrender to- the relator possession of the institution known as the Home for the Friendless, and the books, papers, and other property attached to and connected with said home, belonging to the state of Nebraska. The district court refused the peremptory writ, and the relator brings the case here by petition in error.

From the alternative writ, the return thereto, and the evidence it appears that in 1876 there was incorporated a “Society of the Home for the…