Greenhow v. Vashon
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of hustings court of city of Richmond, rendered 1885, on a petition by George S. Vashon, a taxpayer in said city, to obtain from the said court a writ of ■mandamus to compel S. C. Greenhow, treasurer of said city, to receive of him (Vashon) coupons cut from bonds of the State of Virginia, issued under the act approved March 31, 1871, in payment of the State taxes for which said Vashon was indebted for the year 1884. Greenhow demurred to Vashon’s petition,…
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Error to judgment of hustings court of city of Richmond, rendered 1885, on a petition by George S. Vashon, a taxpayer in said city, to obtain from the said court a writ of ■mandamus to compel S. C. Greenhow, treasurer of said city, to receive of him (Vashon) coupons cut from bonds of the State of Virginia, issued under the act approved March 31, 1871, in payment of the State taxes for which said Vashon was indebted for the year 1884. Greenhow demurred to Vashon’s petition, and then answered, setting forth his reasons for refusing to receive said coupons. The hustings court sus-' tained the…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
The defendant in error, George S. Yashon, a tax-payer in the city of Richmond, being indebted to the State of Virginia for State taxes, for the year 1884, to the amount of $35.63, on the 12th day of November of that year tendered to S. O. Green-how, the treasurer of said city, and the officer appointed by law to receive said tax, in payment thereof, certain coupons, cut from bonds of the State of Virginia, issued under the áct of the general assembly, approved March 31, 1871, entitled, “ An act to provide for the funding and payment of the public debt,” one for one thousand dollars, No. 3174,…
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