Board of Supervisors v. Arrghi
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to tbe Circuit Court of Jefferson County. Hon. Uriah Millsaps, Judge. The board of supervisors of Jefferson county entered into a contract with Patrick Murphy for the building and maintaining in repair for five years, a bridge. A warrant for the last installment, $2,100, payable in December, 1874, was issued to him and by him indorsed to Frank Arrghi, the relator.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of Jefferson County. Hon. Uriah Millsaps, Judge. The board of supervisors of Jefferson county entered into a contract with Patrick Murphy for the building and maintaining in repair for five years, a bridge. A warrant for the last installment, $2,100, payable in December, 1874, was issued to him and by him indorsed to Frank Arrghi, the relator. This transfer is alleged to have been made in April, 1874. At the July term of the board, the relator asked for the levy of a special tax to pay his warrant, which being denied, he filed his petition for a peremptory mandamus.…
1Opinion of the CourtSimrall, J.
This suit was brought by the relator to compel the board of supervisors of Jefferson county to impose a special tax to pay a warrant drawn by the clerk on the county treasurer, in favor of Pat*671rick Murphy, for $2,100, payable December 1, 1874, and by him indorsed to the relator. This warrant was the last installment for the repair of a bridge. A partial payment of $333, or about this sum, had been made to Murphy.
The petition to the board to assess the tax, was presented at the July session, 1874. The date of the assignment of the warrant to the relator is alleged to have been the 30th of…
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