State Ex Rel. City of Charleston v. Holman

HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus, wherein relator, the City of Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri, seeks to compel the respondent, Haskell Holman, State Auditor of Missouri, to register and certify, under the provisions of Section 108.240 RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S., the validity of one of an issue of $300,000 of general obligation bonds recently approved by the voters of said city. Respondent waived issuance of the alternative writ and filed a return denying the legality of said bond on grounds hereinafter set forth. Thereafter, the parties, by stipulation filed,…