23 Kan. 659
Decided January 15, 1880
Supreme Court of Kansas · decided 1880-01-15
Original Proceedings in. Mandamus. Action brought February 3, 1880, by Adkins, an elector of Labette county, who sued as well for himself as for all others… Held: then the board could not order another; and it matters not that the board should have given a wrong reason for a correct de^ cisión. To entitle a party to the writ of mandamus, it must be made to appear that he has a legal right to have something done by the board to which he seeks to have the writ directed.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1880-01-15
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1947
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.