Daniel v. Askew
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Columbia Circuit Court. Hon. J. K. Young, Circuit Judge. The warrants are equivalent to promissory notes, payable on demand. 15 N. Y., 337; 23 ib., 570, and statute of limitation runs from date.
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APPEAL from Columbia Circuit Court. Hon. J. K. Young, Circuit Judge. The warrants are equivalent to promissory notes, payable on demand. 15 N. Y., 337; 23 ib., 570, and statute of limitation runs from date. Byles on Bills (Sharsioood ed.), 342; 13 Pick., 418; 13 Wend., 267; 1 Mo., 662; 12 N. J. Law (7 Halst.), 247; 50 Barb., 334. No exception in favor of a public corporation. 33 Iowa, 151; 4 Texas, 470; 20 Wall, 583. Holder could recover only their value in confederate money when issued. 8 Wall, 1; 1 Otto, 3. Petitioner not bona fide holder for value. Dillon on Municipal Corporations, sec.…
1Opinion of the CourtEnglish, C. J.
On the fourth of March, 1879, Benj. P. Askew presented to the judge of the ninth judicial circuit, in vacation, a petition for mandamus, to compel Zadock L. Daniel, collector of Columbia county, to receive county .warrants issued on the twenty-third of July, 1862, in payment of county taxes assessed and levied upon his real and personal property for the year’1878. The judge ordered an alternative writ to be issued, returnable the first Monday of April following.
At the return term of the Columbia circuit court, Daniel answered the petition, the plaintiff demurred to the answer, the court…
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