State Ex Rel. Kennedy v. Knott

This is an original proceeding in mandamus. The alternative writ commands the respondent, as State Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner, to issue a license as insurance agent to relator, W. G. Kennedy, or to show cause on a day certain why he refuses to do so. There was a motion to strike portions of the alternative writ on the ground that they introduced collateral issues that were without relevance to the act sought to be coerced. There was also a motion to quash and the cause comes on now to be disposed of on both the motion to strike and the motion to quash.

The first question argued is…