State v. Board of County Commissioners
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court, Sheridan County; HoN. James H._ Burgess, Judge. Proceedings for a writ of prohibition on the relation of Sheridan Investment Company against the Board of County Commissioners.in Sheridan County. There was a judgment for defendant and plaintiff brings error.
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ERROR to the District Court, Sheridan County; HoN. James H._ Burgess, Judge. Proceedings for a writ of prohibition on the relation of Sheridan Investment Company against the Board of County Commissioners.in Sheridan County. There was a judgment for defendant and plaintiff brings error. Plaintiff’s demurrer to the petition should have been sustained; the notices of special election did not designate the polling places notwithstanding, that such designation was required by the resolution of -the County Commissioners directing notice of the election. Special elections are governed by the same…
1Opinion of the Court
Blume, Justice.
The petition in the ease at bar alleges among other things that on April 6th, Í921, a resolution was duly passed by the board of county commissioners of • Sheridan County, Wyoming, to submit to the voters of the said county the question of issuing the bonds of the said county in the sum of $300,000.00 for the purpose of constructing roads, high7 ways, etc., and providing for a proclamation calling said *32election; that said proclamation was made calling the election for May 10th, 1921; that pursuant to said call said election was held, and a majority of the votes cast thereat…
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- Hamilton v. Village of DetroitSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
- State ex rel. City of Carthage v. GordonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1909
- Road Commissioners v. Bank of AsheSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1921
- State ex rel. Fahrman v. RossMissouri Court of Appeals · 1912
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- Imperial County v. GareyCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1923