State ex rel. Curtis v. McCullough
Nevada Supreme Court
This was an original application to this Court for a writ of mandamus. When the writ was first applied for, Hillyer & Whitman, who were the regular attorneys and counsel for the Overman Silver Mining Company, represented the relator.
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This was an original application to this Court for a writ of mandamus. When the writ was first applied for, Hillyer & Whitman, who were the regular attorneys and counsel for the Overman Silver Mining Company, represented the relator. Subsequently, when the new board of trustees of that company met, and by their action removed the relator and reinstated the respondent in the office of superintendent, Hillyer & Whitman ceased to represent the relator, and he substituted Mesick & Seely as his counsel. No decision in the case had been rendered before the meeting of the new board of trustees, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Lewis, J., Beatty, O. J.,
concurring;
and Johnson, J.,
concurring in judgment.
This is an application by the relator, Curtis, for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant, McCullough, to deliver to him all the books and papers belonging to the office of Superintendent of the Overman Silver Mining Company, and to admit him to the enjoyment of all the rights incident to that position. Upon the first showing, we came to the conclusion that the peremptory writ should issue ; but the showing made upon the supplemental answer, by which it was made to appear that the defendant, after the…
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