State Ex Rel. Gulf Life Insurance v. City of Live Oak

Mandamus proceedings have been instituted against the respondent, City of Live Oak, a municipal corporation. The command of the alternative writ is that the City of Live Oak, qua a municipal corporation, through its properly authorized (but unnamed) officials, representatives, clerks, attorneys, agents and servants forthwith do levy a tax on all of the taxable property within the municipality sufficient to pay relator’s bonds and coupons on which the respondent municipality is obligor, exclusively for the purpose of paying such obligations, and to assess the taxable property pursuant to such…