Haga v. Grand Forks County

Burr, Ch. J.

The plaintiff seeks to compel the defendant John Sandbek, as treasurer of Grand Forks county, to issue to him a receipt showing the payment of 1932 taxes. The trial court denied an application for mandamus and plaintiff has appealed.

On February 23, 1933 the plaintiff, in order to pay his taxes, purchased from the Northwood State Bank a draft on the First National Bank of Grand Forks, for the amount of his taxes and other items, “payable upon presentation to the order of the said defendant Sandbek, as treasurer of the county of Grand Forks,” and at that time the North-wood State…