Loftin v. Watson

Harrison, J.:

This was an application to the court below by E. L. Watson, a tax-payer of Jackson County, for a writ of mandamus to compel John R. Loftin, the Sheriff and Collector of Taxes, to receive from him county warrants, issued since the adoption of the Constitution of 1874, in payment of the tax levied by the County Court, in 1876, to pay indebtedness existing at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.

The amount of his tax, to pay such indebtedness, he alleged in his petition, was $33.15, and that he had tendered the sum to the collector, in county warrants, issued since the…