State Ex Rel. Botkin v. Morrison

This is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel the secretary of state to receive and file a petition for the referendum of chapter 184, Laws 1933, being an act entitled, "An Act Imposing a Tax on Gross Incomes, Providing Generally for the Levy, Assessment, Collection and Distribution Thereof; for Regulatory Measures for the Enforcement of the Act, Providing for Exemptions, Imposing Penalties for Violations of the Provisions of the Act, and Repealing Section 7922 of the 1919 Revised Code of South Dakota, and Chapter 107 of the Session Laws of South Dakota of 1919."

The respondent declined…