People ex rel. Seeley v. May
Supreme Court of Colorado
This was an original action in the supreme court, asking for mandamus on defendant, treasurer of Lake county, to accept and receive a county warrant issued prior to July, 1885, in payment of county taxes.
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This was an original action in the supreme court, asking for mandamus on defendant, treasurer of Lake county, to accept and receive a county warrant issued prior to July, 1885, in payment of county taxes. To the complaint defendant demurred, and, on argument, the court held that county warrants were, in so far, contracts of the county, that when a law, in force at the time of their issuance, provided that such warrants should be received in payment of county and road taxes, a subsequent act, providing that all such taxes should be paid in cash only, was unconstitutional as to warrants issued…
1Opinion of the CourtElbert, J.
We treat the first defense to the answer as amounting to a traverse of the allegations of the complaint and do not notice it further.
*84The principal contention is over the second defense interposed.
Its sufficiency is submitted on demurrer, and its determination requires the construction of section 6, article XI, of the constitution.
The section is as follows: “No county shall contract any debt by loan in any form, except for the purpose of erecting necessary public buildings, making or repairing public roads and bridges; and such indebtedness contracted in any one year shall not exceed the rates…
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