State ex rel. Arpin v. George
Supreme Court of Minnesota
J. B. Arpin. and others, doing business under the firm name of J. B. Arpin Dredging Company, obtained from the district court for Beltrami county a writ of mandamus directing J. L. George, as county auditor of that county, to issue to the dredging company a county warrant upon the drainage, fund for the sum of $9,142.50, or show cause why he had not done so.
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J. B. Arpin. and others, doing business under the firm name of J. B. Arpin Dredging Company, obtained from the district court for Beltrami county a writ of mandamus directing J. L. George, as county auditor of that county, to issue to the dredging company a county warrant upon the drainage, fund for the sum of $9,142.50, or show cause why he had not done so. Despondent demurred to the petition and writ; and the county of Beltrami intervened as a defendant, upon the ground that it appeared upon the face of the petition and writ that the county had an interest in the litigation and that it…
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
This is an appeal from an order overruling separate demurrers interposed by the defendant and the intervener to a petition and alternative writ of mandamus. The court below certified that the question presented by the demurrers was important and doubtful.
The main facts disclosed by the petition and writ, and necessary here to state in order to a proper understanding of the controversy, are these: The defendant is the auditor of Beltrami county. In February, 1911, the relators entered into a contract with the counties of Marshall and Beltrami to construct therein judicial ditch No. 12, and…
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