State ex rel. McWilliams v. Bates
Supreme Court of Missouri
Mandamus. (1) This ease is of sufficient magnitude and importance to justify the Supreme Court in taking original jurisdiction.
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Mandamus. (1) This ease is of sufficient magnitude and importance to justify the Supreme Court in taking original jurisdiction. State ex rel. v. Payne, 151 Mo. 663 ; State ex rel. v. Adams, 161 Mo. 349'; State ex rel. v. Weeks, 93 Mo. 499; State ex rel. v. Slover, 113 Mo. 211; State ex rel. v. Johnson, 123 Mo. 43; State ex rel. v. Walbridge, 123 Mo. 541. (2) “The debt for which the warrants in controversy were issued, having been ascertained by being audited and allowed by the officers appointed by the law therefor, and the warrants being drawn on a special fund for the amount due, about…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
— The relator is a citizen of Illinois and respondents compose the board of supervisors of the Des Moines and Mississippi Levee District No. 1. This action is prosecuted to compel respondents to levy a special tax to pay warrants issued to relator for excavating certain ditches for said levee district.
The Des Moines and Mississippi Levee District 1, hereinafter designated as the Levee District, was incorporated in 1903 under the provisions of article 7, chapter 122, Revised Statutes 1899 (now article 9, chapter 41, Revised Statutes 1909'), and embraces about 11,000 acres of land in Clark…
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