Overstreet v. Keith

The present action was commenced by the plaintiff to secure a writ of mandamus compelling the defendant, treasurer of Pawhuska, Okla., to pay the principal and interest past due upon two certain street improvement bonds issued by the city of Pawhuska. The trial court issued an alternative writ on the plaintiff’s verified petition, but after the plaintiff in error, who is the present owner of the bonds, had been substituted as plaintiff for the plaintiff who commenced the action, a trial was had upon the issue joined by the defendant’s return to the alternative writ, and the court rendered…