Aplin v. Board of Supervisors

The petition for mandamus in this, case is to compel respondent to levy a tax to pay the-sum of $11,616.60, being the amount petitioner claims, the county owed the State on July 1, 1887. Respondent *183admits the correctness of the amount claimed, except $2,149.18. Respondent claims that there had been an open and continuous account, consisting of debits and credits, between the county and State since 1856, and that the county is entitled to have the last-named sum charged back to the State on a correct accounting, which has never yet been had between the parties. The respondent insists upon its…