State ex rel. Hetzel v. Board of Commissioners
Nevada Supreme Court
This was an original application to the Supreme Court for a writ of peremptory mandamus, as stated in the opinion. The petition alleged that at a regular meeting of the county commissioners on April 21, 1873, six hundred and eighteen qualified electors petitioned the board to order an election of county officers for the first Monday in August, 1873, and that the board had refused to do so.
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This was an original application to the Supreme Court for a writ of peremptory mandamus, as stated in the opinion. The petition alleged that at a regular meeting of the county commissioners on April 21, 1873, six hundred and eighteen qualified electors petitioned the board to order an election of county officers for the first Monday in August, 1873, and that the board had refused to do so. The respondents, D. H. Hall, E. E. Phillips and L. W. Cromer, answered, denying that the petition contained the names of five hundred qualified electors and alleging that they had as a board considered such…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Belknap, J.:
Application for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the county commissioners of Eureka County to order an election as provided by the terms of- the act creating the County of Eureka. Section three of said act directs that if on or before the first Monday in July, A. d. 1873, five hundred or more of the qualified electors of the County of Eureka petition the board of county commissioners to order an election for county officers, it shall be the duty of said board to call an election for that purpose to be held on the first Monday in August, A. d. 1873. Before…
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