Woolman Construction Co. v. Sampson

On the 18th day of July, 1921, the Woolman Construction Company made application to the circuit court for the county of Ingham for a writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to sign and deliver to it an order on the Grand River drain fund for $21,794.91, in payment of the balance claimed to be due on a contract for the construction of the drain. The facts upon which the application was based are substantially as follows: A petition for the construction of a drain to be known as the Grand River drain *127was filed with Emmett E. Cochrane, drain commis-' sioner for Jackson county. Because he owned…