Patterson v. Mitchell

The opinion of the court was delivered’ by

Harvey, J.:

The first of these cases (No. 30,554) is an original proceeding in mandamus to require defendant to grant plaintiffs permission to sue the receiver appointed by the court in the case of Boggs v. Shenandoah Oil Company to determine plaintiffs’ claims of title to land situated in another county. The second (No. 30,658) is an appeal from the order of the court denying such permission. The actions are consolidated here, for, aside from questions relating to procedure which are no longer important, they present the same legal questions; namely,…