Follmer v. Board of County Commissioners
Nebraska Supreme Court
This action was brought in the district court of Nuckolls county, upon a petition of the plaintiff, to restrain the defendants from building bridges in that county without; letting the contract for the building of the same to the lowest responsible bidder, and also to enjoin the board from auditing and paying a large number of accounts already accrued in the hiring of hands, and for the purchase of material for the erection of bridges, except where the contract for the same…
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This action was brought in the district court of Nuckolls county, upon a petition of the plaintiff, to restrain the defendants from building bridges in that county without; letting the contract for the building of the same to the lowest responsible bidder, and also to enjoin the board from auditing and paying a large number of accounts already accrued in the hiring of hands, and for the purchase of material for the erection of bridges, except where the contract for the same was let to the lowest responsible bidder. A temporary injunction was allowed. By stipulation of the parties the cause…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwell, J.
In 1866 the legislature amended section fifteen of the road law so as to permit county commissioners to levy an additional cash tax for bridge purposes, not to exceed five mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable property,.to be levied and collected as other taxes; which special tax when so collected shall be exclusively applied to building and repairing permanent and substantial bridges and culverts, under the direction of the county commissioners.
Section sixteen provides that: “ The county commissioners may let contracts to the lowest competent bidders for the…
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