Deming v. Board of Supervisors

Plaintiff is the owner of drainage bonds in the principal amount of $6,000 on District No. 46 in Worth County, Iowa. The bonds have been in default since their maturity on May 1, 1936. On January 6, 1939, plaintiff commenced this action in mandamus against the Board of Supervisors of Worth County, alleging that the drainage taxes which were anticipated by the issuance of the bonds and pledged to the payment of the bonds were not all applied in payment of such bonds. The petition alleged that, “by reason of withdrawals by warrant or otherwise from funds pledged to the payment of the…