Board of Supervisors v. Smith

This was an application for a writ of mandamus. The petition alleges that appellee was the owner of claim 594, section 616, township 3, range 10, in the county of Madison, containing one hundred acres. That before the first day of May, 1875, he sold twenty acres to the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis ¡Railroad Company, and to other railway companies, and these grantees then and ever since have been the owners thereof; that the town assessor, in 1876, was informed by petitioner that he was the owner of only eighty acres of the tract, and the assessor so listed it for taxation; that he attended…