Stewart v. Justices of St. Clair County Court

This is a proceeding of mandamus to compel the respondents, as justices of the county court of St. Clair county, to make an assessment and levy a tax to satisfy the judgment in this court in favor of relator against the county, predicated of bonds issued by the county in payment of a subscription to aid in the construction of a railroad. ' To the alternative writ the respondents make return, pleading, inter alia, that the judgment on which the original writ was based was rendered *483more than 10 years next before suing out the writ. The relator moves to strike out the return, as constituting no…