State ex rel. Reed v. Ramsey

An alternative writ of mandamus was issued to the respondents, who constitute the board of county commissioners of Oass county, reciting that prior to the *287fourteenth day of May, 1878, petitions were presented to them, the said board of county commissioners, signed by resident electors of said county equal in number to three-fifths of all the votes cast at the last general election held in said county previous thereto, which said petitions were in conformity in all respects with the law, and which requested them, the said board of commissioners, to call a special election in said county for…