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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BOARD OF EDUCATION (Port Huron) vs. RUNNELS (City Treasurer),
    57 M., 46.
   To compel respondent, ex-officio treasurer of relator, to deposit "the school moneys in a bank which relator had designated as the -depository of its moneys.

Granted May 13, 1885.

The bank had applied, but the court had denied the writ, holding that mandamus does not lie to enforce a contract. But held that mandamus lies at the instance of the board; that the moneys as received are at once payable to the designated depository and that the treasurer could not go■ behind the records of the board, which on their face were valid action, for the purpose of avoiding the performance of his duty.