State Ex Rel. Bates v. Morgan

Relator, county judge, brought this mandamus action seeking to require respondents to issue and deliver to him a warrant for the sum of $39.23, the amount set off and deducted by the county board from his April 1950 salary claim in payment of his delinquent personal taxes. An alternative writ issued and respondents answered, whereupon the cause was tried on its. merits and a judgment was entered, finding and adjudging the issues generally for the respondents, denying the writ, and dismissing the action with costs taxed to relator. Upon the overruling of relator’s motion for new trial,…