State ex rel. Biggs v. Corley

Layton, C. J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

One of the questions presented for determination is concerned with the status of the relator, who, as a citizen and taxpayer, has instituted these proceedings. They involve questions of public rights and duties. The object and purpose of the writs of mandamus are to procure the enforcement of public duties. No special interest in the result of the proceedings need be shown. It is sufficient that the relator is a citizen and, as such, interested in the enforcement of the laws. While a senator must be elected from a particular district, yet,…