Avery v. Township Board of Krakow

Petitioner asks this Court for a mandamus to compel payment of 11 township and highway orders for the aggregate sum of $387.50, which he claims to own, and which he avers respondents have refused to pay him. All but two of these orders were made and accepted in 1880. Two, amounting to $30, were made in 1885. Of these latter, one was payable to Theodore Styba or order, and not indorsed, and one to Theodore Styba or bearer. He claims that when presented the orders *623were repudiated as outlawed, and for no other reason. Respondents set up in their answer, in addition to this reason, which they do…