State Ex Rel. Blonder v. Goodbrod

OPINION

By petition filed January 12, 1956, plaintiff Blonder, the respondent, sought mandamus to compel defendant Goodbrod, recorder of Pumpkin Buttes Mining District, the appellant, to accept and record certain lode mining claim location certificates. Without any process being served or other notice to appellant, the court on January 13, 1956, heard petitioner ex parte and ordered that its peremptory writ of mandamus issue, directed to the defendant recorder, and command him to accept for filing and to record with the mining district, the plaintiff’s lode mining certificates. On January 17,…