Hancock v. Harnage, Co.

This in an appeal from a judgment denying a writ of mandamus by plaintiff in error directing the county treasurer of Muskogee county to pay over to plaintiff, a deputy county assessor, the moneys derived from the $1 penalty for making arbitrary assessments against persons who failed to list their property for taxation with the county assessor for the fiscal years 1929-30 and 1930-31. The contention is that the arbitrary assessments involved were made by plaintiff as deputy county assessor of Muskogee county under and pursuant to the provisions of section 9666 C. O. S. 1921 (12582, O. S.…