Davis-Wellcome Mortgage Co. v. Haynes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.;

The Davis-Wellcome Mortgage Company, a domestic corporation, seeks by mandamus to require the defendants, the state and county taxing officers, to accept a statement it has tendered as *3a correct basis for taxation. The case is submitted upon a motion to quash the alternative writ.

There is submitted at the same time a similar application in behalf of Willis Norton & Co., a partnership engaged in business as manufacturers and merchants, to be determined also upon a motion to quash.

We are required to determine the effect of portions of these two…