Louisville & New Albany Railroad v. State ex rel. McCarty

The Auditor of State filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Floyd county, an affidavit charging that the appellant did not, between the 1st day of January, 1864, and the 1st day of June next ensuing, file with the auditor of Floyd county, where the principal office of the company was situated, a statement of the amount of its capital stock for taxation, and praying for a mandamus requiring it to do so. A motion was made upon this affidavit for a mandamus, and upon the overruling of a demurrer, an alternative writ -was issued. A return was made to the writ, and, upon motion, the return was…