Industrial Building & Loan Ass'n v. Knight

This is an action in mandamus to compel the board of county commissioners of Dolores county to levy a tax to pay three county warrants in the sum of $250.00 each, issued by the county in November, 1894, for and on account of the construction of a courthouse and jail. On final hearing the court found in favor of the defendant and refused the writ.

Sometime during the year 1894, Dolores county, through its board of commissioners, resolved to build a courthouse and jail. Proceeding as prescribed by the pertinent statutes, the board, after having, by resolution, made an appropriation therefor of…