Ballard v. Standard Printing Co.

H.A. Ballard, as treasurer of the county of Ripley, State of Missouri, instituted this action for a declaratory judgment in respect to his official obligation to pay certain warrants issued by said county and duly presented to, protested by, and certified as to the insufficiency of funds in the treasury for their payment by the then treasurer. (Secs. 13801 and 13833.1) The petition named Standard Printing Company, a corporation, the county of Ripley, and more than thirty other individuals and corporations as defendants. Some of the warrants were issued in 1925, others in 1926, 1927, 1928, and…