State ex rel. Reedsburg Bank v. Hastings

By the Court,

Dixon, C. J.

Tbis is an application for a mandamus to compel tbe respondent, wbo is treasurer of tbe state, to deliver to tbe relator, a corporation organized under the provisions of tbe law authorizing tbe business of banking, certain interest coupons attached to tbe state bonds deposited by tbe relator with tbe respondent as security for tbe redemption of its circulating notes. Tbe proceeding is amicable in its nature, and designed to test tbe validity of that portion of tbe law which regulates, tbe taxation of the capital stock of banks, and which is supposed to have been…