State Ex Rel. Thompson v. Alderman

This action was commenced to obtain a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent Walter Alderman, as secretary of the board of education of school district No. 1 in Howard County, Nebraska, to publish the “individually itemized salaries paid or allowed by the Board for any and all employees, including teachers, setting forth the name of the claimant, the amount, the nature of the claim allowed consisting of not more than ten words in the stating of the nature of the claim” in a legal newspaper published in Howard County, Nebraska. The school district was also joined as a respondent.

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