Milliken v. O'Meara

O’Meara and others obtained a peremptory mandamus against Milliken, secretary of state, requiring him to issue a motor vehicle license to them upon payment of the required fee. He brings error.

The General Assembly passed an act (S. L. 1923, pp. 460-463), which directs that every officer who collects a registration license fee for an automobile to “require of the person applying or of some credible agent thereof, an affidavit * * * that all * * * taxes on such motor vehicle * * * due and payable at any time within the year preceding that for which such license is to be issued, have been duly…