Smith v. Haney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The legislature of 1905 passed a law (Laws 1905, ch. 167) to authorize the county commissioners of Gove county to build and equip a courthouse without a vote of the people. The maximum cost of the building was fixed at $16,000. Provision was made for the expense of the building and equipment by the levy of a special annual tax of not more than three mills on the dollar for not more than four years, the proceeds of these levies to form a separate fund to be known as the “county building fund,” against which warrants were to be drawn for all…