Jones v. Hurlburt
Nebraska Supreme Court
Appeal by defendant, The Lincoln & Northwestern Railroad from a decree of the district court for Seward county, Post, J. presiding, enjoining the delivery of certain county and precinct bonds to said defendant. A precinct can issue its bonds in excess of the limitation of ten per cent to which a county is ícstricted.
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Appeal by defendant, The Lincoln & Northwestern Railroad from a decree of the district court for Seward county, Post, J. presiding, enjoining the delivery of certain county and precinct bonds to said defendant. A precinct can issue its bonds in excess of the limitation of ten per cent to which a county is ícstricted. State v. Lancaster County, 6 Neb., 214. This is settled, and where propositions are submitted to a vote of several precincts, and at the same time and on the same day a proposition is submitted to vote county aid for the same purpose, the precinct aid for which the propositions…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
Section 2, of article XII, of our state constitution, provides that no city, county, town, or precinct, municipality, or other subdivision of the state shall ever make donations to any railroad or other work of internal improvement, unless a proposition so to do shall have been first submitted to the qualified electors thereof at an election by authority of law, with a proviso that such donations of a county, with the donations of such subdivisions in the aggregate, shall not exceed ten per cent of the assessed valuation of such county.
The first point made by the appellee to sustain the…
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- State ex rel. A. & N. R. R. v. County CommissionersNebraska Supreme Court · 1877
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