State Ex Rel. Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Dist. v. Thompson

54 N.E.2d 307, 143 Ohio St. 201, 143 Ohio St. (N.S.) 201, 28 Ohio Op. 115, 1944 Ohio LEXIS 398

• Court: Ohio Supreme Court
• Decided: April 12, 1944
• Docket: 29883
• Status: Published

Opinion

This cause coming on to be heard on the return of the alternative writ of mandamus heretofore issued herein, and no answer having been made by 'respondent, the court finds the facts to be as set forth in the petition, and that relator is entitled to have the writ made peremptory.

It is therefore ordered that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue against the respondent, B. Frank Thompson, Treasurer of Harrison county, Ohio, for the performance of the acts hereinbefore alternatively ordered, and that immediately upon the service of this writ he act accordingly and proceed to collect the first half of the 1938 annual and maintenance assessments of relator, Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Dis trict, against the village of Freeport, a public corporation in Harrison county, Ohio, in the following amounts:

1st % 1938 1st % 1938 Total due including Annual levy Maintenance as- 10% penalty sessment

$47.91 $15.97 $70.27

together with interest, and report and pay the same to relator.

It is further ordered that the respondent pay the costs herein taxed at $----, for which execution is awarded.

Writ allowed. •

Weygandt, O. J., Matthias, Hart, Zimmerman, Bell and Williams, JJ., concur. Turner, J., not participating.