Codlin v. Kohlhausen

Citations

• 181 U.S. 151
• 21 S. Ct. 584
• 45 L. Ed. 793
• 1901 U.S. LEXIS 1351

Syllabus

<p>Judgment awarding a peremptory writ of mandamus directing the execution of certain county bonds for the construction of a courthouse and jail having been rendered in October, 1897, the case taken on error to the appellate tribunal in >1898, and affirmed in 1899, and the bonds having been, in the meantime, issued and sold and the building constructed, and the county officials, who were the original respondents below, and are appellants here, having gone out of office before this appeal was taken, the court is of opinion that the rule approved in Mills v. Green, 159 U. S. 651, and,in cases there cited, should be applied.</p>