State v. City of Lake City

On the return-day of the alternative writ at the October term, 1877, both respondents made a motion to quash the writ as improvidently granted, on the grounds: (1) That the provisions of the act of March 6, 1868, entitled "An act to authorize the village of Lake City to aid in the construction of the St. Paul Chicago railway," (Sp. Laws 1868, c. 15,) were, as respects the town of Lake, then known by the corporate name of the town of Lake City, wholly nugatory, because the subject of that act, as indicated in its title, related to the "village," instead of the "town," of Lake City, and that…