Whitmore v. Calhoun County Treasurer

On leave granted, plaintiff appeals in the nature of certiorari from an order entered by the circuit court for Calhoun county denying his petition for a writ of mandamus. The facts are accurately stated by the circuit judge in his findings, as follows:

“This is a petition by William Whitmore for writ of mandamus to compel James Threapleton, as county treasurer of Calhoun county, to pay or honor drain order No. 239 in the amount of $600.

“It appears from, the evidence taken at the hearing on said petition that J. E. Shedd, county drain commissioner in the year of 1943, entered into an oral…