State ex rel. Townsend v. Hill

The question in this case arises upon the return of the respondent to the alternative writ of mandamus. The said alternative writ contains the following charge, after the setting out of the submission of the question of the issuing and donating of the county bonds to the railroad company, and the holding of the election, that at the said election there were cast two thousand two hundred and thirty-eight votes, of which number fourteen hundred and forty-eight were cast in favor of the proposition * * * and seven hundred and ninety were cast against the proposition. “ That the votes polled, in…