Supervisors v. Durant

76 U.S. 736

19 L.Ed. 813

9 Wall. 736

SUPERVISORS

v.

DURANT.

December Term, 1869

1

ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Iowa.

2

The writ of error in this case, which was a proceeding of the United States ex relatione Durant against the Board of Supervisors of Poweshiek County, Iowa, brought up a petition, on the part of the relator, for an alternative writ of mandamus to the supervisors of the county just named, commanding them to levy a tax sufficient to pay a certain judgment which he held against the county, or show cause for not so doing; the order for an alternative mandamus, and the…