State ex rel. Horsley v. Carbon County

The relator applied for a writ of prohibition to restrain the county commissioners of Carbon County from issuing and negotiating certain bonds voted for at a special election. It is claimed that the commissioners are unauthorized to issue or negotiate the bonds for the reasons that the notice of election was insufficient, and that two purposes for which the indebtedness is to be created were stated and no opportunity given the voters to vote separately upon them. In support of the first, it is contended that the published notice of the election was bad because the polling places of the voting…