Atkinson, J.
1. The ease was submitted to the trial judge by agreement,
on the petition and answer; and in view of the allegations of the petition and the admissions contained in the answer, the court was authorized to grant a mandamus absolute, requiring that the commissioners of roads and revenues of Wilcox County assess, levy, and collect a tax, sufficient in amount, on the taxable property of the county of Wilcox during the year 1921, to pay oil and discharge the warrants as set out in the plaintiffs petition, and that the defendants pay off and discharge such indebtedness with the money so collected. Civil Code (1910), §§ 5539, 5775; Wilson v. Gaston, 141 Ga. 770 (82 S. E. 136); Wright v. So. Ry. Co., 146 Ga. 581 (2) (91 S. E. 681). And this is so notwithstanding the county warrants were issued in the years 1919 and 1920 respectively, and the order requiring the tax levy to be made and collected was passed during the year 1921.
2. Whether a demand upon the county commissioners to levy and collect a tax as set out in the foregoing headnote is necessary, before a mandamus absolute will be granted, is not decided; the question not having been raised on the trial of the case, and it being made for the first time in the brief of counsel for the plaintiffs in error.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.
The defendants filed an answer and admitted that it was their duty to levy and collect a tax upon all property in the, county, sufficient to pay the operating expenses of the county and the upkeep and operation of its chain-gang. They- admitted the issuance of the two warrants to the plaintiff, for materials furnished to the chain-gang of the county, payable from the funds set aside for the maintenance of the chain-gang. They denied that interest was due, and refusal of payment by them; but they neither admitted nor denied demand and refusal of payment by the county treasurer. Other parts of the answer were demurred to, and the demurrer was sustained; but no exception was taken to this ruling. The case was submitted on the petition and answer, without further evidence. The judge made the mandamus absolute, and the defendants excepted.
H. A. Hodges and M. B. Gannon, for plaintiffs in error.
Bradley Hogg, contra.