State ex rel. Beck v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.

This is an action wherein the' State of Nebraska on relation of Clarence S. Beck, Attorney General, plaintiff and appellee, filed a petition in the district court ■ for Thurston County, Nebraska, wherein a peremptory writ of mandamus was prayed against the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company, a corporation, defendant and appellant. The pertinent substance of the petition and of the prayer will be ’set out later herein. '

The peremptory writ was allowed. From- the allowance of the writ the defendant- has appealed to this court. It contends that the writ was issued without…