State ex rel. Umatilla County v. Hawks

This is a proceeding in mandamus, instituted originally in this court by Umatilla County, acting by and through its County Court, to compel the assessor of that county to enter and apportion upon the assessment-rolls of Umatilla County the sum of $66,976.81 for market road purposes, in compliance with the order of the County Court levying a tax in the above-mentioned sum for the aforesaid purpose and directing the county assessor to extend the tax so levied upon the tax-rolls of Umatilla County, as by law required.

The alternative writ of mandamus, and the return thereto, discloses the facts…