Blaine County v. Smith

Citations

• 5 Idaho 255
• 48 P. 286
• 1897 Ida. LEXIS 14

Syllabus

<p>Boaed of Accountants Appointed by Law. — A board of accountants-whose appointment is provided by law, and whose duty it is to ascertain the amount of indebtedness of a certain county at a certain time, and apportion such indebtedness among said and other named counties, on a given basis, performs clerical acts, and such-board of accountants cannot defeat the object for which it was-appointed by attempting to- pass, directly or indirectly, on the validity of such indebtedness.</p> <p>Mandamus — Mtjnicipai, Coepobations. — When a duty is enjoined by law upon the officers of a municipal corporation (a county), and such, officers fail or refuse to perform tlie duties so enjoined upon them, mandamus will lie to compel the performance by such officers of the duties so enjoined upon them, and in such, case the court will, to avoid multiplicity of suits and repeated applications for peremptory writs, direct full compliance by all officers of such corporation properly before the court with the requirements of the law under which it is their duty to act.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>