State ex rel. Powell v. Capps

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

This is an appeal in a proceeding for mandamus whereby relator seeks to require the last board of supervisors of Mingo Drainage District (hereafter referred to as “Mingo” or the “district”) to levy a tax to obtain funds with which to pay certain portions of a judgment obtained by him against the district.

Mingo was organized on April 22, 1915, for a period of fifty years, pursuant to Chap. 41, Art. I, RSMo 1909. (Subsequent references to the above statutes will be to the corresponding section in Chapter 242 RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S.) The area of Mingo, after one extension of…