Doble Steam Motors Corp. v. Daugherty

This application is for a writ of mandate whereby the petitioner seeks to compel the respondent, Edwin M. Daugherty, as Commissioner of Corporations of the State of California, to issue his official permit to the petitioner, authorizing it to issue and deliver certain shares of its capital stock to certain persons and under certain conditions as set forth in its said petition, and which permit upon its application to and demand upon said respondent as such Commissioner he has refused to issue. The respondent appeared in response to the alternative writ of mandate issued herein and demurred to…