State ex rel. Sage v. Bennett

Maxwell, Ch. J.

This is an application for a mandamus to compel the defendant, who is city treasurer of Plattsmouth, to pay two certain orders for $50.00 each, drawn by the mayor and clerk of said city on the “special license tax fund,” in which it is alleged that at the date of presenting said orders to the defendant there was in his hands-the sum of $3,584.92. The money is claimed under ordinance 132 of said city, which will be referred to hereafter.

To the petition the defendant filed an answer in which he admits that Plattsmouth is a city of the second class; admits that he is city…