State ex rel. City of Seward v. Marsh

The city of Seward, relator, applied to the court below for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the auditor of public accounts, respondent, to register municipal bonds of relator in the sum of $85,000. Respondent resisted the allowance of the writ on the ground that the bonds, if issued, would not comply with the terms of the present statute. Relator insists that the bonds were voted and sold according to the requirements of the law then in force, and that the present statute, though providing for different obligations and repealing the act under which relator proceeded, did not destroy…