Caffyn v. State ex rel. Rader

Bicknell, C. C.

— This was an application for a writ of *325mandate to require the appellant, as county auditor, to place on the tax duplicate of his county certain special taxes.

The petition was filed in September, 1882. It states that the plaintiff’s relator is a resident freeholder and taxpayer of Rochester township, in said county; that on January 1st, 1879, the Chicago and Atlantic Railway Company was about to construct its railway through said Rochester township; that more than twenty-five freeholders of said township presented their petition to the county board of said county, for the…