Johnson v. Bruce

Appellant averred by his petition in mandamus that he is the owner of seven bonds, each for the principal sum of five hundred dollars of the Teoo Sub-Drainage District, and that the said bonds were past due both in principal and interest. Copies thereof were exhibited with the petition. Appellees are the commissioners of said district and the treasurer thereof. The petition avers that although the bonds and the interest thereon are in default, and “although earnest and constant demand has been made upon” the commissioners to pay said bonds in default, they have failed “to see to it that an…