State Ex Rel. Taliaferro v. Baskin

The defense to the alternative writ of mandamus in this case is that the respondents, city officials of Clearwater, Florida, should not be.required to revise the budget of the city for the fiscal year 1933-1934 so as to provide for and appropriate therein for the payment of relator’s bonds, a sum equal to all past due principal, interest coupons delinquent and current interest to fall due, because, pursuant to a previously issued peremptory writ of mandamus emanating from this Court,, a tax levy sufficient, if collected, to pay relator’s bonds, was made last year although not collected.

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