Williams v. Bidleman
Nevada Supreme Court
Application to the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus requiring the defendant, as recorder and ex-officio auditor of Lander County, to issue and deliver the warrants referred to in the act copied in the opinion. The defendant, in answer to the petition, set up the unconstitutionality of the act.
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Application to the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus requiring the defendant, as recorder and ex-officio auditor of Lander County, to issue and deliver the warrants referred to in the act copied in the opinion. The defendant, in answer to the petition, set up the unconstitutionality of the act. I. The act in constitutional contemplation does not “ regulate county business,” but simply declares that in the judgment of the legislature Lander County ought to pay Leffingwell a certain sum of money, for the payment of which there was, without this act, no authority of law, mode of payment, or…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Garber, J.:
By an act of the legislature of this state, entitled “ An act for the relief of James Leffingwell, Sheriff of Lander County, in the years 1865 and 1866,” approved February 16th, 1871, it is enacted as follows:
“ Section 1. The county auditor of Lander County is hereby authorized and directed, and it is made his special duty, from and after the passage of this act, to draw his warrants in favor of James Leffingwell, for the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, on the general fund of said Lander County, which warrants shall bear a legal interest from the date of…
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