State ex rel. Hutchinson v. McGrath

The relators, on the tenth of March, 1887, associated themselves together under article 8, chapter 21, Revised Statutes, for the purpose of organizing a corporation by the name of “The Kansas City Real Estate Exchange,” to be located at Kansas City. The articles of association, it is conceded, are in due form, and were duly recorded in the recorder’s office. Upon a presentation of a copy of the same to the secretary of state, he declined to issue a certificate of incorporation ; and the object of this application for the writ of mandamus is to compel him to make the certificate.

*356The secretary,…