State Ex Rel. Janelle v. Lake Superior Court

This is an original action for an alternative writ of mandamus to compel the respondent court to grant a change of venue from the county. We issued the alternative writ to order the change or show cause.

The certified copies of the court records filed by petitioner disclose that on June 25, 1956, the relator filed an answer in two paragraphs to the complaint of Bernard Baruch, et al. doing business as Baruch Oldsmobile. No certified copy of the answer has been filed here, and since no rule to reply was entered against the plaintiffs, we must presume this answer closed the issues in the cause.

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