William Strong

“ They assert that the court could not rightfully decide that its order to levy a tax upon all the property of the city meant to include the capital of merchants, taxable under the law of the State for other purposes. There is nothing in these objections. A mandamus to collect a tax for the payment of a judgment, or a mandamus to pay a judgment, is process in execution, and nobody heretofore has ever questioned the power of a court to control its own final process. ”

“ That decision covers the first assignment of error in this case, and leaves it without any foundation.
The other assignments are of minor importance. Some of them deny the power of the Circuit Court to define the extent of its own writ of execution. ”

“ The merchants do not appear to have made any complaint when taxes for general purposes were imposed. It is only when the special tax for the payment of the relator's judgment is ordered that they object. ”