Ficklen v. Mayor

The Mayor and Council of the City of Washington and A. G-. Cozart made application for a writ of mandamus directed to F.. H. Ficklen, alleging that the respondent, former treasurer of the city, refused, after demand duly made, to deliver to said Cozart, the treasurer • of the city elected after the removal of respondent, certain funds belonging to the city, which had come into his hands while treasurer and were still held by him. In response to the application the respondent, .among other defenses, denied that at the time the mandamus nisi was granted on the petition (which was prior to its…