State Ex Rel. East Side Bank v. Holloway

Plaintiffs in error filed petition for writ of mandamus to issue against the defendants in error to compel the defendants in error tO' levy taxes sufficient to produce a fund to pay the past due interest and principal on a certain bond issue and to pay interest and principal which would accrue and become due during the years 1931 and 1932, the aggregate of which it was alleged was in the sum of $170,880.00.

Alternative writ issued and demurrer was filed thereto, as well as motion to quash.

The demurrer challenged the legal sufficiency of the allegations of the writ.

The Court, taking judicial…