Land Development Co. v. Jordan

Petition for a writ of mandate. It appears from the petition of the Land ■ Development Company, H. Grecian, M. D. Steen, and Frederic C. Benner, that on the seventh day of August, 1925, they presented to the respondent Secretary of State certain articles of incorporation, accompanied by the requisite filing fees, with the request that said articles be filed. The Secretary of State did then and there refuse, and ever since has refused and declined, to file the said corporate articles and advanced the following reasons for such refusal: (1) That this court, in Del Monte Light & Power Co. v.…