People ex rel. Oliver v. Stevenson

delivered the opinion of the court: This is an original petition for mandamus, filed in this court by Frederick S. Oliver, M. E. Merkel and A. M. Dean, asking that Lewis G. Stevenson, Secretary of State, be commanded to issue a certificate of the complete organization of a corporation known as “Oliver & Company (Incorporated),” pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled “An act concerning real estate agency corporations,” approved June 23, 1915. (Laws of 1915, p. 330.) The petition alleges that all the steps prescribed by the general Incorporation act have been taken to organize a…