Dodge v. Van Buren Circuit Judge

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the circuit judge to issue a preliminary injunction. The petition shows that in April, 1898, the relator, as complainant, filed a bill in chancery against the township board of the township of Paw Paw and the South Haven & Eastern Railroad Company, in which bill it was stated that complainant was the owner of property in said township, of the value of $2,000, which was liable to the assessment of taxes; that the electors of said township had illegally voted and executed $10,000 in the bonds of said township, which had been placed in the…