Atlas Acceptance Corp. v. Pratt, Dist. Judge

STEAUP, Chief Justice.

This is an original proceeding in this court wherein the Atlas Acceptance Corporation was granted an alternative writ of mandate directing the district court of Weber county to grant a change of venue in a cause therein pending wherein W. F. Pickett is plaintiff and the Atlas Acceptance Corporation and the Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company of New York are defendants, or show cause for not doing so.

The material facts are that in March, 1932, the Atlas Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Utah with its principal place of business at Salt Lake City in…