Bunch v. United States ex rel. Townsend
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States' for the Western District of Missouri; Arba S. Van Valkenburgh, Judge. Mandamus by the United States, at the relation and to the use of J. T. Townsend, Jr., and others, against J. T. Bunch and others, County Judges of St. Clair Coimty, Mo., and others. Peremptory writ issued, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in error in this case are J. T. Bunch, W. H. Duncan, and W. P. Tucker, who are the county judges of St. Clair county, Mo., and William J. Mathews, the collector, George Virgil Higgins, the clerk, and E. M. Terry, the treasurer, of that county. They complain that the court below, notwithstanding their return to an alternative writ of mandamus served upon them, issued its peremptory writ commanding the judges to levy $2.50 on each $100 of the assessed value of the property in St. Clair county, and the collector, clerk, and treasurer to make return of their…
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