State ex rel. Stevens v. McLeish

On March 30, 1921, relators presented to this court an application for a writ of mandate and, in aid thereof, a writ of certiorari, addressed to the board of county commissioners of Chouteau county, requiring it to reconvene and make an order nullifying all of its proceedings had on and after the twenty-ninth day of November, 1920, attempting to create Banner county out of portions of Chouteau and Fergus counties. The writs were issued as prayed for, and returns made showing all of the proceedings had and done. They were treated as companion writs, consolidated, briefed, argued and presented…