People ex rel. Duket v. Department of Agriculture

This case comes to this court on appeal by petitioner in the court below for mandamus against app ellee. Demurrer to the petition hy respondent was sustained and the petition dismissed.

By the petition it appears the relators are copartners, doing business as Duket-Novak Stock Farm. That they are desirous of obtaining the official permit of the Department of Agriculture of Illinois to purchase cattle which heretofore reacted to the tuberculin test, but wMch show no physical evidence of the disease, under and according to the provisions of the statutes of Illinois, to wit, under paragraph 61,…