State ex rel. Ross v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Kansas
Motion for wrix, of Mandamus. The relator by petition showed that defendants, Robinson, secretary of state, Hillyer, auditor, and Dutton, treasurer of the state of Kansas, as the board of state officers autohrized by an act of the legislature entitled “an act to provide for the state printing,” approved May 15th, 1861, to let the state printing, did, during the first week in November, 1861, give notice in four different newspapers, printed in different sections of the state,…
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Motion for wrix, of Mandamus. The relator by petition showed that defendants, Robinson, secretary of state, Hillyer, auditor, and Dutton, treasurer of the state of Kansas, as the board of state officers autohrized by an act of the legislature entitled “an act to provide for the state printing,” approved May 15th, 1861, to let the state printing, did, during the first week in November, 1861, give notice in four different newspapers, printed in different sections of the state, for sealed proposals for the state printing, as specified and in the manner pointed out in said act, that on the 9th…
1Opinion of the Court
*217By the Court,
Ewing, C. J.
We shall treat this as a motion addressed to this court, in ’ the first instance, under the provisions of the code, and will consider only the motion and affidavit, and such portions of the briefs as relate to questions arising on the facts set forth in those papers.
If Bennett, by failing to execute or deliver his bond as required by law, lost all right to the contract, and if all the facts stated in the motion and affidavit be true, were the state officers required by the law unconditionally to let the contract under the fourth proposal to the relator ?
We think they…
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