State ex rel. Egger v. Payne
Supreme Court of Missouri
Mandamus. (1) When a county warrant is in legal form, lawfully issued, properly assigned and is presented by the legal holder thereof, in payment of any county tax for any year by the owner of the lands of personal property, the collector has no discretion whatever in the matter, and it is imperative upon him to receive the same. R. S. 1889, secs. 3205, 7604; Logan v. Barton Oo.
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Mandamus. (1) When a county warrant is in legal form, lawfully issued, properly assigned and is presented by the legal holder thereof, in payment of any county tax for any year by the owner of the lands of personal property, the collector has no discretion whatever in the matter, and it is imperative upon him to receive the same. R. S. 1889, secs. 3205, 7604; Logan v. Barton Oo. Court, 63 Mo. 336; Reynolds v. Norman, 114 Mo. 509; Wilson v. Knox Oo., 132 Mo. 387; U. S. v. Macon County, 45 Eed. Rep. 400; s. c., 123 U. S. 215. (2) This right on the part of the assessed taxpaying citizen and…
1Opinion of the Court
*671IN DIVISION TWO.
BUEGESS, J.
This is an original proceeding by man-damns begun in this court in the name of the State at the relation of Eredolin Egger, the object of which is to compel the respondent, who is collector of the revenues of St. Olair county, to receive in part payment of his county taxes for 1897, amounting to three dollars and thirty cents, a county warrant duly issued by said county in February, 1896, for the sum of two dollars and ten cents, of which he is the legal holder, and to receive in part payment of the county taxes due by him to said county for the year 1898, amounting…
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