Board of County Commissioners v. State ex rel. Miller

On the 5th day of August, 1879, the relator filed a duly verified claim for the sum of $753.75 against Lancaster county for taxes levied and paid upon school lands in said county, the title to which was in the state. No action being taken by the board upon the claim, in May, 1882, the relator obtained an alternative writ of mandamus from the district court of Lancaster county, to compel them to act upon the claim. To this writ the commissioners answered in substance that they were ready and willing to audit said claim whenever there were funds in the treasury of the county for the purpose of…