State Ex Rel. Walls v. State Board of Land Com'rs

Kimball, Justice.

This is an action of mandamus against the Board of Land Commissioners. The case has been heard on the return of the alternative writ on facts most of which are settled by stipulation. •

The relator seeks to require the issuance to him of a mineral “prospector’s lease” on a tract of state school land in Park County. The Board of Land Commissioners is the sole defendant, but Lloyd I. Evans, another applicant for the same kind of a lease of the same land, whose application has been approved by the board, has been served with a copy of the petition and alternative writ, as…