State ex rel. City of Moberly v. Ferguson

The relator asks this court to issue a writ of mandamus against the defendant, who is treasurer of Randolph county, to compel him to pay over a certain sum of money in his hands, which he claims belongs to the State revenue.

From the record it appears, that in 1872 the city of Moberly issued its bonds to the amount of sixty-two thousand dollars, to aid and assist the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway in the erection and building of their machine shops in said city, and the money now in the hands of the county treasurer arose from assessments made on the machine shops for State taxes,…