Pace v. Wolfe, District Judge

Upon application of the plaintiffs, an alternative writ of mandate was issued requiring the defendant, as judge of the district court of Salt Lake county, to make an order changing the place of trial of a certain action pending in said district court or show cause why he should not do so. Upon the plaintiff’s petition and the answer and motion to quash filed by the defendant, the matter has been submitted to this court. The controversy arises upon the following facts, which are not disputed, viz.: On December 11, 1929, Isaac Wax, as plaintiff, commenced an action by the filing of a complaint…