Norris v. Montezuma Valley Irr. Dist.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado; Robert E. Lewis, Judge. Petition for mandamus by Mark Norris and others against the Montezuma Valley Irrigation District and others. To review a judgment (240 Fed. 825) granting the prayer for relief in part and denying it in part, plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
MUNGER, District Judge.
The plaintiffs below sought a writ of mandamus to compel the county treasurer to apply a certain fund in his hands on the payment of a judgment held by them and tc compel a levy of a tax to pay the unpaid balance of the judgment. The trial court granted a writ requiring the county treasurer to pay over a portion of the fund in his hands to apply on the judgment and denied the prayer for other relief, and the plaintiffs have prosecuted this writ of error.
The Montezuma Valley irrigation district was organized under the statutes of Colorado, and in 1907 and 1910 it issued…
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