Stanley Matthews

“ It may be a question whether the remedy by mandamus is not larger and more extensive under the Iowa Code than the plaintiff in error admits. And, at any rate, we cannot strike from the record parts of the plaintiff's case as immaterial, without assuming the point to be proved that we have a right to consider its merits at all; for whether they are material may be the substance of the controversy. ”

“ It merely imposes a liability upon the lessee while operating it; and if this liability extends, as is claimed, to obligations of the lessor antecedent to the lease, such as that sought to be enforced in the present proceeding, there is nothing in the statute to exclude the idea that it is a joint liability, enforceable against both. ”