People ex rel. Reeder v. Treasurer of Wexford

This case comes up on findings by the circuit judge in a proceeding in this court for mandamus, and the only question which is fairly open is upon the amount to be ordered paid. The proceeding is one substantially against the county and not personally against the treasurer except as a means to work out redress against the county. The circumstance that the incumbency of the office of county treasurer has changed in the progress of the events connected with the matter in controversy is of no importance. The office itself has continued and has been and is represented by an officer, and that is…