Baker County v. Benson
Oregon Supreme Court
From Union: ¥m. R. Ellis, Judge. Mandamus by Baker County, a municipal corporation, against George W. Benson, county clerk, and ex officio clerk of the circuit court of Union County, to compel the defendant to make out and deliver certain transcripts to the clerk of Baker County, and also to deliver certain original papers on file in his office. From a judgment awarding a peremptory writ, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
This is a mandamus proceeding to compel the defendant, as county clerk and ex officio clerk of the circuit court for Union County, to perform an act which it is alleged the law specially enjoins upon him as a duty resulting from his office. The facts are that by an act of the legislative assembly which took effect March 1,1901, purporting to annex a part of Union County to the County of Baker, the clerk of Union County was required, within thirty days after said act should become operative, to make out and deliver to the clerk of Baker County certain transcripts, and also to deliver certain…
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