State ex rel. Dugan v. Mayor of Jersey City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Yan Syckel, J.

The rule granted in this case requires the board of finance and taxation, the city collector and city treasurer of Jersey City to show cause, before this court, why *360■a peremptory mandamus shall not issue to compel them to pay over to the relator, the collector of the county of Hudson, ■the sum of $300,363.20, the state school and county taxes for the year 1886, with interest. It is admitted that money ■enough has been collected (but not a sufficient amount of the ■county and state tax) to pay the full amount claimed.

The question in the…