Logan v. Mississippi Abstract Co.

Appellee requested of appellant, the Chancery Clerk of Coahoma County, permission to make photographic copies of all the land records of that county, using for that purpose a machine called Recordak Micro-File Model D. The Clerk refused permission. Appellee filed in the Circuit Court of that county a petition praying for mandamus to the clerk to grant such permission. By agreement a jury was waived, and the case was heard by the trial judge, who, upon the pleadings and proof, ordered that the writ of mandamus issue. From that order appellant appeals.

The principal contention made here is that…