Urner, Aud. v. State, Ex Rel. Alcorn

This action in mandamus arose out of certain expenditures claimed to have been unauthorized by law — expenditures from the “Motor Vehicle License Fund” and the “Gasoline Tax Fund” made by the city of Cincinnati in the year 1929. Later, by amendment to the petition and supplemental petition, the action was enlarged to include expenditures from those funds in 1930, 1931 and the first half of 1932, and the interest earned on the funds, but credited to the general fund.

The laws imposing an automobile license tax and a tax on gasoline have always prescribed the use to which the money could be…