State ex rel. Keefe v. Graves

This is an application to this court in the exercise of its original jurisdiction for a mandamus to the defendant, the judge of the district court of the Eighth judicial district of this state. The facts, as shown by the pleadings and proofs, may be briefly stated to be that the relator, James Q. Keefe, is the holder of the title to the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 25, in township 25 north, of range 6 east, in Thurston county; that he became the owner of the land by proper conveyances after the first day of January, 1908; that prior and up to about the 10th day of…