Osborne v. Kammer
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Montgomery county rendered at its May term, 1896, in a proceeding by mandamus, wherein the defendants in error were the plaintiffs, and the plaintiffs in error and others were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
*229William Kammer filed, in the Hustings Court of the city of Kadford, his petition (which was afterwards removed to the Circuit Court for Montgomery county) praying for a writ of mandamus to compel the city of Kadford and its council (naming the persons who composed the council) to levy taxes, and make an appropriation therefrom to pay interest due on certain bonds of the city held by him.
The city did not answer the petition. The members of the council filed two answers; those in the East ward uniting in one, and those living in the West ward in the other.
Upon the hearing of the cause the court…
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