People ex rel. Lafayette, Bloomington & Mississippi Railway Co. v. Supervisor of Oldtown

This is an application to this court, on the relation of the Lafayette, Bloomington and Mississippi Railway Company, for a writ of mandamus, to the supervisor and town clerk of the town of Oldtown, to issue certain bonds of that town, and deliver them to the relator, in payment for an equal amount of the relator’s capital stock, pursuant to a vote of the legal voters of the town, at an election held on the 12th day of December, 1867, as is alleged.

Issues of fact were made up on the allegations in the petition and answers, and referred to the circuit court of Logan county for trial.

Of those…