McBride v. Hardin County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hardin District Court. The plaintiff filed his petition against the defendant in four counts. The first count of the petition alleges that the plaintiff was proprietor and publisher of a weekly newspaper, published in Hardin county, known as the Eldora Ledger; that about the first day of January, 1878, the defendant duly employed the plaintiff to publish in the Eldora Ledger, the proceedings of the board of supervisors, at their January, April, and June sessions,…
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Appeal from Hardin District Court. The plaintiff filed his petition against the defendant in four counts. The first count of the petition alleges that the plaintiff was proprietor and publisher of a weekly newspaper, published in Hardin county, known as the Eldora Ledger; that about the first day of January, 1878, the defendant duly employed the plaintiff to publish in the Eldora Ledger, the proceedings of the board of supervisors, at their January, April, and June sessions, the reasonable worth of which was thirty-three and one-third cents per square; that he published of the proceedings of…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
1. COUNTY: board of supervisors: publication of proceedings. I. The agreed statement of facts upon which the cause was submitted, as to the first count, is as follows: “The plaintiff introduced in evidence the following resolution passed by the board of supervisors of Hardin county, at the January session, 1878, to-wit: ‘Eesolved, that the board of supervisors hereby select the Eldora Ledger and the Iowa Balls Sentinel as the papers in which the proceedings of the board shall be published as required by section 307 of the Code-, and the auditor is hereby required to furnish a copy of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Turner & Co. v. Woodbury CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1881
3Cited by2 opinions
- Sperry v. KretchnerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1885
- Board of Commissioners v. JohnsonIndiana Court of Appeals · 1915