State ex rel. O'Brien v. Board of Commissioners of Educational Lands & Funds

This is an action brought by appellant, Samuel L. O’Brien, hereinafter called plaintiff, to compel the defendant, Honorable Dan Swanson, commissioner of public lands and buildings, hereinafter referred to as land commissioner, and other officers connected with the administration of his office, to issue to plaintiff a lease of section 16. township 20 north, range 28, of the school lands of Cherry county, and praying that an alternative writ of mandamus issue, and that the same might be made permanent upon a final hearing of the case. Issues were duly joined, trial had to the court, and…