Edwards v. . Commissioners

The plaintiff had obtained a judgment against the defendants for $1,643.93, and issued a notice to show cause why a (571)mandamus should not issue to the defendants, compeling the Board to levy taxes, c. Upon the return of the notice the defendants answered, which his Honor, holding to be insufficient, ordered a peremptorymandamus to issue, from which order defendants appealed. The objection to the jurisdiction, that the action was brought in the county of Alleghany, where the plaintiff resides, instead of in Wilkes, where the defendants reside, and of which latter county they are the Board…