Posados v. City of Manila

This was a suit begun by an original petition in the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands under § 2947 of the Compiled Acts of the Philippine Commission, 1907, praying for an original writ of mandamus directed to Juan Posados, Jr., Collector of Internal Revenue of the Islands and of Manila, and to Benjamin F. Wright, Insular Auditor, requiring the Collector to issue warrants payable to the City of Manila for the share of the internal revenue taxes collected by him due to the City under the statutory law, and requiring the Auditor to countersign those warrants. In furtherance of the main…