State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Grand River Drainage District

This case comes to the writer on reassignment. It is an original proceeding in mandamus; the relators, claiming to be the holders of certain bonds issued by the respondent Grand River Drainage District, seek to compel their payment out of a fund alleged to have been collected and set apart for that purpose.

The alternative writ, incorporating the petition therefor, after alleging that the respondent, Grand River Drainage District of Livingston and Linn Counties, Missouri, was duly incorporated as a drainage district under and by virtue of what is now Article I, Chau- ter 64, Revised Statutes…