Court Opinion

ID: 7338534
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-25 23:32:26.539935+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:20:14.425144
License: Public Domain

INGRAHAM, J.
I dissent from the reversal of this order and awarding an alternative writ of mandamus. The relator made an application for a peremptory writ upon affidavits. He asked for no alternative writ, but in the court below rested his right to be reinstated upon the facts appearing upon the application. The court denied his application upon those facts, and of this determination the prevailing opinion approves. I can see no reason why, upon appeal, when the case was correctly decided below, the order should be reversed, because, if the relator had asked for an alternative writ in the first instance, he would have been entitled to it. He made no such demand, but rested his right to be reinstated upon the facts as they appeared, and, when defeated upon that application, we are not, I think, justified in reversing the order and granting an alternative writ.