State ex rel. Wisconsin Power & Light Co. v. Zimmerman

The respondent’s motion to quash the alternative writ was properly made, should be granted, and the proceedings by relator in this court dismissed.

From an early time it has been recognized by this court that alternative writs of mandamus, such as here, being often hurriedly applied for and in seeming emergencies, without notice to other parties or persons interested and without argument, are generally issued unless they clearly show upon *196their face that there is no support whatever for such writ. State ex rel. Cothren v. Lean, 9 Wis. 279, 281, the same case holding that under such situation a…