STATE Ex Rel MEDFORD PEAR CO. v. FOWLER

This cause came before the court when the relator, pursuant to Oregon Constitution, Art VII, § 2, filed with our clerk a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus directed to the assessor of Jackson county, and the court, following a study of the petition, assumed jurisdiction. Subsequent to service upon him of the alternative writ, the assessor, Eobert Gr. Fowler, filed an answer, and later the relator presented his reply. The pleadings revealed some issues of fact. Presently the defendant moved “for an order dissolving the alternative writ of mandamus for the reason and on the ground…