State ex rel. City of Cheyenne v. Swan
Wyoming Supreme Court
Keserved Questions from the District Court for Laramie County, Hon. Riohard H. Scott, Judge. This was a proceeding in which the relator, -the city of Cheyenne, a municipal corporation, sought the writ of mandamus to compel Daniel S. Swan, as County Treasurer of Laramie County to sell certain property upon which it was alleged taxes were due to said city for the year 1896 and previous years, and which the respondent declined to sell on the ground that the act which authorized…
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Keserved Questions from the District Court for Laramie County, Hon. Riohard H. Scott, Judge. This was a proceeding in which the relator, -the city of Cheyenne, a municipal corporation, sought the writ of mandamus to compel Daniel S. Swan, as County Treasurer of Laramie County to sell certain property upon which it was alleged taxes were due to said city for the year 1896 and previous years, and which the respondent declined to sell on the ground that the act which authorized the county treasurer to sell lands for delinquent taxes due to a city or town situated within the county, viz.: Chapter…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Chief Justioe.
In this case the relator, the city of Cheyenne, filed its petition in the district court for the county of Laramie, alleging its character as a municipal corporation, and that prior to the first day of March, 1897, it was allowed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, to collect the taxes due to itself for municipal purposes, and, among other things, to sell real estate within its corporate limits upon which such taxes had become delinquent in the manner provided by the laws of the State of Wyoming, and by its own ordinances; but on the first day of March, a. d. 1897,…
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