Board of Public Instruction v. State Ex Rel. Peabody Seating Co.

The writ of error brings for review judgment awarding peremptory writ of mandamus requiring respondents to levy a tax to produce funds sufficient to pay relators judgments and to include in the tax levy and assessments against all property subject to taxation at the time the indebtedness accrued.

The judgment in favor of the Peabody Seating Company was recovered on May 5th, 1937 and was based on indebtedness which accrued for furniture sold and delivered to defendants in October, 1932. The judgment of Hughes-Law Lumber Company was recovered and entered on October 28, 1937, and was based on an…