State Ex Rel. Webster Groves Sanitary Sewer District v. Smith

This is a mandamus action to compel the State Auditor to register certain bonds issued by the Webster Groves Sanitary Sewer District. Upon the filing of the application for the writ in this court, respondent waived the issuance of the writ, agreed that relator’s application and petition might be considered as such writ and filed his return thereto. The return challenges the constitutionality of an Act of the Fifty-seventh General Assembly of Missouri entitled:

“An Act to provide for the establishment of sewer districts in counties now having or which may hereafter have a population of not less…