State ex rel. Otto v. County Commissioners

The relator herein claimed to be entitled to hold the office of constable and to exercise the duties thereof in and for the city of Lincoln, and made an application to the district court of Lancaster county for the issuance of a writ of mandamus, directed against respondent, ordering and compelling it to approve his official bond as such officer, which he alleged he had prepared and presented to the board and which it had failed and refused to approve, notwithstanding the board admitted the “sufficiency of the financial ability of the sureties” and that the bond was in proper form. It was…