People ex rel. Pack v. Supervisors of Presque Isle County

Campbell, J:

A mandamus is sought for to compel provision to be made by taxation to pay certain warrants issued in June and November, 1874, and January, 1875, purporting to be dated at Crawford’s Quarry, and to have been issued by order of the board of supervisors, signed by J.-- Burnham, chairman, and Frederick Denny Larke, clerk.

The answer, which is not controverted by the relator, denies that the county had any legal organization until after the act of 1875, which made adequate provision for it, and treated it as then unorganized; that in 1870 a single township, of Rogers, not embracing the…