Carroll v. Board of Police
Mississippi Supreme Court
ON appeal from the circuit court of Tishamingo county; Hon. Hugh R. Miller, judge. George W. Carroll petitioned for a mandamus against the board of police of Tishamingo county, to compel said board to levy a tax upon the people of said county, to pay certain warrants issued by the clerk of police court of said county on the 11th of August, 1840, and one of which warrants bears interest upon its face from date.
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ON appeal from the circuit court of Tishamingo county; Hon. Hugh R. Miller, judge. George W. Carroll petitioned for a mandamus against the board of police of Tishamingo county, to compel said board to levy a tax upon the people of said county, to pay certain warrants issued by the clerk of police court of said county on the 11th of August, 1840, and one of which warrants bears interest upon its face from date. On the 16th of October, 1838, Jefferson O. Tarkington executed his bond with security to John C. Carter, president of the board of police of Tishamingo county, by which the said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fisher
This was an application to the circuit court of Tishamingo county for a writ of mandamus against the board of police of said county to compel them to levy and to cause to be collected a tax for the purpose of paying certain warrants held by the relator on the treasury of that county.
The court upon the coming in of the return to the writ which issued in the first instance in the alternative, refused to grant a peremptory writ, and thereupon dismissed the application. From which judgment the present writ of error has been prosecuted.
It is a general rule that upon an application for a peremptory…
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