State ex rel. City of Dexter v. Gordon
Supreme Court of Missouri
Mandamus. (1) An assessment cannot be considered completed until'it has passed the State Board of Equalization. Prickett v. Marceline, 65 Fed. 469; Lake County v. Standley, 24 Colo. 1; McLean v. Valley County, 74 Fed.'389. (2) The limit of indebtedness is determined by the assessed valuation in force at the time bonds are issued and not by the time they are voted. 1 Dillon on Municipal Corporations (5 Ed.), sec. 207; Corning v. Mead County, 102 Fed. 57; Prickett v.…
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Mandamus. (1) An assessment cannot be considered completed until'it has passed the State Board of Equalization. Prickett v. Marceline, 65 Fed. 469; Lake County v. Standley, 24 Colo. 1; McLean v. Valley County, 74 Fed.'389. (2) The limit of indebtedness is determined by the assessed valuation in force at the time bonds are issued and not by the time they are voted. 1 Dillon on Municipal Corporations (5 Ed.), sec. 207; Corning v. Mead County, 102 Fed. 57; Prickett v. Marceline, 65 Fed 469; Dudley v. Lake County, 80 Fed. 677; Electric Co. v. Newton, 42 Fed. 723. It will be noted in connection…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This is a proceeding by mandamus instituted by the relator, a city of the fourth class,, against the respondent, the State Auditor, to compel the latter to register certain bonds.
*306The respondent refused to register the bonds, and relator applied for and was granted an alternative writ of mandamus in this court, to which the respondent made return, alleging among other things that said bonds were illegally issued, a more detailed statement of said return being hereinafter set out.
The facts as disclosed by the petition are as follows : ,
On the 16th day of July, 1912, said city enacted an…
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