STATE EX REL. PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO. v. Duncan

This is a proceeding in mandamus which The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, as relator, in stituted in this court for an alternative writ. Article VII, section 2, Constitution of Oregon, authorizes this court “in its own discretion” to “take original jurisdiction in mandamus. ’ ’ The defendant is the Honorable George R. Duncan, one of the circuit court, judges for Marion County. Judge Duncan, on February 19, 1951, in a proceeding entitled The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, a corporation, plaintiff, v. George H. Flagg, as Commissioner of Public Utilities of Oregon, defendant,…