State ex rel. Skyllingstad v. Gunn
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Alternative writ of mandamus issued from the district court for Pine county on relation of Theodore T. Skyllingstad, commanding defendants, as county commissioners of that county, to cause to be issued and negotiated pursuant to chapter 181, Laws 1901, certificates of indebtedness sufficient to pay a county warrant for $597 held by relator, and from the proceeds of such certificates to pay said warrant with interest.
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Alternative writ of mandamus issued from the district court for Pine county on relation of Theodore T. Skyllingstad, commanding defendants, as county commissioners of that county, to cause to be issued and negotiated pursuant to chapter 181, Laws 1901, certificates of indebtedness sufficient to pay a county warrant for $597 held by relator, and from the proceeds of such certificates to pay said warrant with interest. From a judgment entered pursuant to the order of Crosby, J., quashing the writ and dismissing the proceedings, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
START, O. J.
Appeal from a judgment quashing the alternative writ of mandamus, and dismissing the proceedings herein, on the ground that neither the *437petition nor the writ states facts sufficient to constitute, a cause of action or to entitle the relator to the relief demanded.
The facts alleged in the petition and writ are to the effect following:
On July 15, 1896, the board of county commissioners of the county of Pine, in the state of Minnesota, upon a proper petition, and in conformity with the provisions of Taws 1895, p. 712, c. 302¿ duly made an order laying out and establishing in the…
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