State ex rel. First National Bank v. Hastings

— The relators in these three cases sought, in the superior court for Jefferson county, writs of mandamus to compel the mayor and councilmen of the city of Port Townsend to levy taxes upon the tax*286able property witbin that city in pursuance of the provisions of chapter 84, Laws of 1897, p. 222 (Rem. Comp. Stat., §§5635-5646), for the purpose of paying certain indebtedness fund warrants of the city held and owned by relators, which warrants were issued in satisfaction of certain judgments rendered against the city by .the superior court for that county. "While the cases were not formally…