Runyon v. Haislet
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Chickasaw District Court. — Hon. W. A. Hoyt, Judge. The plaintiff is the publisher of the New Hampton Times, a weekly newspaper published in Chickasaw county. He applied to the board of supervisors of that county in January, 1892, to have his paper selected as one of the official newspapers of the county, under the provisions of section 307 of the Code. The board ignored that paper, and selected four others.
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Appeal from Chickasaw District Court. — Hon. W. A. Hoyt, Judge. The plaintiff is the publisher of the New Hampton Times, a weekly newspaper published in Chickasaw county. He applied to the board of supervisors of that county in January, 1892, to have his paper selected as one of the official newspapers of the county, under the provisions of section 307 of the Code. The board ignored that paper, and selected four others. Erom that action the plaintiff appealed to the district court. After a hearing in that court, judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff. E. M. Haislet, proprietor of one of…
1Opinion of the CourtEobiNSON, J.
The only action of the hoard of supervisors in regard to the selection of newspapers shown by the record of its proceedings is as follows: “On motion it was ordered that the New Hampton Tribune, Iowa Free Presse, Lawler Dispatch, and Nashua Times be the official papers of the county to publish the proceedings of the board of supervisors of Chickasaw ■county, Iowa, for the year 1892, and that the said four papers publish said proceedings for the same compensation as two papers are allowed by law to publish same.” The appellant was the publisher of the New Hampton Tribune. On the fourth day of…
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