State Ex Rel. Stevenson v. Tufly
Nevada Supreme Court
Application for mandamus. The facts are stated in the opinion. I. The submission of constitutional amendment number twenty-three by the legislature and its ratification by the people at the special election, held February eleventh, 1889,. cured the constitutional defects in the statute of January eighteenth, 1887, and perse revitalized it. (King v. Course, 25 Ind. 202; Commonw. v. Marshall, 69 Penn. St. 328.) II.
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Application for mandamus. The facts are stated in the opinion. I. The submission of constitutional amendment number twenty-three by the legislature and its ratification by the people at the special election, held February eleventh, 1889,. cured the constitutional defects in the statute of January eighteenth, 1887, and perse revitalized it. (King v. Course, 25 Ind. 202; Commonw. v. Marshall, 69 Penn. St. 328.) II. If amendment number twenty-three is not self-operative, the instrumentality to carry its provisions into effect, to wit: A state board of education is provided by the legislature in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Hawley, C. J.
Application by relators, constituting the board of education, for mandamus to compel respondent, as state treasurer, to invest the sum of fifty thousand dollars of the state irreducible school fund in interest-bearing bonds of other states, pursuant to the provisions of an amendatory act providing for the safe-keeping of the securities of the state school fund, “ approved January 18, 1887.” (Stat. 1887, 17.) i
The application must be denied, because there is no law authorizing such an investment to be made. The amendatory act upon which the application is based was…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- State ex rel. Chase v. RogersNevada Supreme Court · 1875
- State ex rel. Stevenson v. TuflyNevada Supreme Court · 1887
- Meagher v. County of StoreyNevada Supreme Court · 1869
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