State Ex Rel. Zoological Board of Control v. City of St. Louis

This is an original action in mandamus. Its purpose is to compel the respondents to appropriate out of the taxes levied for municipal purposes in the city of St. Louis for the current year the equivalent of two cents on each hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of said city for the maintenance of a zoological park and to place the amount so appropriated at the disposal of the relators. The relators are members of the Zoological Board of Control of the City of St. Louis, and comprise a majority of said board. The respondents are the Mayor, the Comptroller and the…