Jones Clerk v. State, ex rel. Board of Public Instruction

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of .the court.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court for Leon county, awarding a mandamus to the respondent, commanding him to compute and levy upon the assessed valuation of property in said county for the year 1879 a certain sum for county school purposes, according to an itemized statement of the amount necessary to be raised for such purposes, delievered to respondent by the Board of Public Instruction of Gadsden county, which the respondent had refused to do.

Appellant contends that the writ was improperly issued, because he -is not…