Stranahan, Harris & Oatis, Inc. v. Van Buren County

Appellants applied to the circuit court of Van Burén County for a writ of mandamus requiring the county judge and the justices of the peace of that county, composing the quorum court, to meet as such and levy a tax, not exceeding three mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property of the county, to pay the interest on the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the county and the amount of the bonds which had matured for payment. The circuit court denied the relief prayed, and this appeal has been duly prosecuted from that order.

On March 1, 1926, the county court of Van Burén…