United States v. Green
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri
At Law. Proceeding by mandamus against J. R. Green, M. xl. Goff, William McK. Lowe, H. M. Freeman, and J. O. Bohart, constituting the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Lathrop, Mo., to compel them to make a levy for the purpose of paying a judgment against the city. On motion to quash a writ of attachment for contempt. Granted as to respondent Green, and overruled as to the others.
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIPS, Distr'ct Judge,
(orally.) In the matter of the mahdamus proceeding against the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Lathrop the facts are briefly these:- In 1889 the respondents, the mayor and hoard of aldermen of the city of Lathrop, (judgment having previously been rendered against the city in favor of certain holders of its bonds,) were served with an alternative writ of mandamus. To that alternative writ they made no response. On the 28th day of March, 1889, the alternative writ was made peremptory. On the same day of the order, and perhaps later in the afternoon or evening,…
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