Huntington

This is a petition for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent, as Secretary of State, to file certain articles of incorporation, to issue the certificate of incorporation, and “do all other acts and things which are necessary or proper to be done in the matter of filing, certifying and issuing articles of incorporation,” etc.

The articles of incorporation which respondent has refused to file in his office are annexed to and made a part of the. petition.

Prom the allegations of the petition it appears that the petitioners, at some time prior to the nineteenth day of October, 1910, associated themselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of this state, to be known as the “Los Angeles Railway Corporation”; that, pursuant to said purpose, there were prepared, in alleged compliance with the requirements of the law, articles of incorporation of said railway corporation, and said articles, so prepared and “duly subscribed and executed,” were filed in the office of the county clerk of the county of Los Angeles, who, upon the filing of said articles, made and delivered to petitioners a copy thereof, duly certified and attested by him as county clerk,…