State ex rel. Southern Railway Co. v. Tompkins

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Judge Witherspoon,

acting in place of Justice Gary, disqualified. The petitioner, the Southern Railway Company, applies to this Court, in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent, Hon. D. H. Tompkins, as secretary of state, to file in his office a copy of the charter granted to the petitioner under the laws of the State of Virginia, in compliance with the provisions of an act of the legislature, entitled “An act to provide the manner in which railroad companies, incorporated under the laws of other…