STATE EX REL VENN v. REID


207 Or. 617 (1956)

298 P.2d 990

STATE OF OREGON EX REL VENN v. REID

Supreme Court of Oregon.

Demurrer sustained May 29, 1956.

Written opinion filed June 20, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.B. Sahlstrom and Clyde N. Johnston, of Eugene, argued the cause for respondent. With them on the brief were S.M. Calkins, Herbert Lombard, William W. Bartle, Chester N. Anderson, Richard Bryson, William Huey, E.L. Kincaid, E.R. Bryson, Hale G. Thompson, J. Daniel Givan, L.L. Ray, Lewis Hoffman, and Clarence Barrett, Jr., of Eugene, and Marvin O. Sanders and Jack B. Lively, of Springfield.

Eugene C. Venn, District Attorney, and Edward Leavy, Deputy District Attorney, of Eugene, argued the cause for petitioner.

A brief was filed by the following attorneys as amici curiae: Alberta E. Heffron, of Springfield, and Keith D. Skelton, George T. Langford, Richard E. Miller, Charles O. Porter, Gordon A. Ramstead, Thelma Chapman Fowler, W.P. Riddlesbarger, Bert McCoy, D.T. Bayly, James P. Harrang, Frank R. Lacy, L.D. Pederson, David F. Lentz, Cecil Stickney, Stanley R. Darling, and Frank E. Bocci, of Eugene.


WRIT QUASHED.

LATOURETTE, J.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus brought by the state of Oregon on the relation of Eugene C. Venn, District Attorney for Lane county, Oregon, as the petitioner, against Frank B. Reid, presiding judge of the circuit court of the county of Lane, second judicial district, state of Oregon, as the respondent.

Upon the District Attorney's proffer of a petition for a writ of...

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