State ex rel. Beatrice Creamery Co. v. Marsh

The Beatrice Creamery Company commenced an action in the district court for Lancaster county, asking a writ of mandamus to compel the secretary of state to accept *198$250 as its corporation tax for 1929. The defendant demurred to plaintiff’s petition and appeals from an order overruling its demurrer. The plaintiff, a domestic corporation, has a paid-up capital stock of $12,000,000, of which only $690,000 is used and employed in carrying on its business in the state of Nebraska, while the remainder is used and employed in other states. This controversy wages over the question as to whether the…