Case ID: mich_51/html/0184-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Adelbert C. Martin v. William B. Tripp, assessor, etc.
    
      Mandamus — Payment of interest on school orders.
    
    Mandamus to compel a school district assessor to pay a school order was allowed where the Court was satisfied there was no valid defense.
    Interest from the time of demand maybe allowed in granting mandamus for the payment of a school order when it is such a settled demand as would sustain a recovery of interest at law.
    Mandamus.
    Submitted June 19.
    Granted June 20.
    
      Hughes db Smiley for the writ.
    
      
      L. A. Tabor against.
   This is a motion for a mandamus to compel the respondent to pay an order issued to the plaintiff by the proper school officers of the district, in payment for .services as a teacher, and which respondent, at a time when he had money in his hands applicable for the purpose, refused to pay. Various defenses were set up,— among them a violation of contract by the relator, irregularity in the making of the contract, and a vote of the district not to pay.

The Court being satisfied there was no valid defense, ordered that the writ should issue; and as the order was such .a settled demand as interest would be recoverable upon at ,law, interest was allowed from the time of demand.