United States ex rel. Portsmouth Sav. Bank v. Board of Auditors

This is a petition for a mandamus to compel the board of town auditors of the town of Ottawa to audit and certify, as a valid debt against the town, a judgment rendered against the town in this court in favor of the relator in 1874.

Bespondents have answered, setting up as defenses or reasons why a writ of mandamus should not issue: (1) That the judgment is barred by the statute of limitations of the state of Iljinois. (2) That the judgment was rendered more than seven years before the filing of this petition, and no execution has ever issued thereon; and, as no execution can now issue for its…