State ex rel. Mahan v. Dubuclet

The relator, alleging liimself to be the State tax collector for the Third District of New Orleans, complains that the defendant, as State Treasurer, refuses to allow him, in a settlement with the treasury, a credit for $14,497 66, the amount of certain State warrants received hy him according to law in payment of taxes, and which were duly canceled, but were afterwards lost by the relator, or were stolen from him. Tlie judge a quo, on being applied to by the relator for a mandamus directed to the defendant ordering him to allow the credit claimed, issued an order nisi, and the defendant…