Jordan

This is an original application for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent, as Secretary of State of the state of California, to file, nunc pro tunc, as of date of March 21, 1912, in his said office of Secretary of State, a certified copy of the amended articles of incorporation of the petitioner.

The petitioner, whose principal place of business is in the city of Santa Rosa, county of Sonoma, was duly formed as a corporation on the eighth day of November, 1911, and its original articles of incorporation, duly executed and such execution duly acknowledged, were on the twenty-second day of November, 1911, filed in the office of the county clerk of the said county of Sonoma, and a copy thereof, properly certified by said county clerk, was filed with and in the office of the Secretary of State, as required by law.

Before the filing of said original articles, the petitioner complied with all the essential requirements prescribed by law for the formation of corporations and which entitled such articles and a copy thereof to be filed in the offices of the county clerk and the Secretary of State, respectively.

“On the nineteenth day of March, 1912,” the petition proceeds to set…