Moeur v. Ashfork Livestock Co.

This is an appeal by B. B. Moeur and four other state officers composing the state land department, and the state land commissioner, from a judgment making perpetual an alternative writ of mandamus issued against them directing that they cause to be issued to the Ashfork Livestock Company a lease on certain state lands, or show cause for their failure so to do.

The facts are undisputed and so far as material may be stated as follows: On March 14, 1934, the plaintiff, the Ashfork Livestock Company, filed in the office of the state land commissioner an application for a lease on lots 3, 4, 5, 6,…