State ex rel. Dick & Brothers Quincy Brewery v. Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad

TRIMBLE, J,

Relator, a foreign corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of beer at Quincy, Illinois, brought mandamus to compel the- respondent, the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad Company, “to receive, accept, transport, carry and deliver .beer offered to it over its said line of railroad” from Kansas City, Missouri, to ■ and through the towns of Kirksville and Novinger in Adair county. The alternative writ was issued and respondent filed a demurrer which the court sustained, and from this order the relator has appealed.

The petition for the writ, after alleging the organization of…