Felix v. Board of County Commissioners
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Saline district court; R. F. Thompson, judge. STATEMENT. In July, 1893, a petition was presented to the board of county commissioners of Wallace county, requesting them to make an order placing a bounty of one dollar each on the scalps of wolves and coyotes, and five cents each on the scalps of rabbits and gophers.
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Error from Saline district court; R. F. Thompson, judge. STATEMENT. In July, 1893, a petition was presented to the board of county commissioners of Wallace county, requesting them to make an order placing a bounty of one dollar each on the scalps of wolves and coyotes, and five cents each on the scalps of rabbits and gophers. The order was made as prayed for, with a provision that the county clerk should issue a receipt for the scalps, which receipt should be negotiable at any of the stores for ninety cents on the dollar. The citizens, realizing that the rewards offered would stimulate the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith, J.:
Does chapter 358 of the Laws of 1895, set out in the statement, have the curative effect of validating the unwarranted acts of the board of county *836commissioners of Wallace county in issuing warrants in evidence of public indebtedness for bounties offered for gopher scalps, make them valid obligations, and fix the amount of the same as a charge upon the county? This is the question now before us.
When the county commissioners made the order offering a bounty on gopher scalps they based their authority so to do on an unconstitutional law. An act…
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