United States ex rel. Ætna Ins. v. Board of Town Auditors of Brooklyn

This is an application by the relator, after due notice, for a peremptory mandamus against the defendants to take the necessary steps under the law to assess a tax for the payment of various judgments which have been rendered in this court against the town of Brooklyn, Lee county, — one on the thirteenth of March, 1876, for $5,511; one on the twenty-fourth of June, 1879, for $22,-644.30; one on the thirty-first of March, 1880, for the sum of $5,-120.50; and one on the twenty-fourth of December, 1880, for $5,615.68, — all with costs.

*474It appears by the petition that these judgments were…