State ex rel. Whittemore v. Peacock

This is an application for a mandamus against the defendants, who are special county commissioners of Brown county, to canvass the votes cast in Long Pine precinct for the location of the county seat of that county. It appears from the record that Brown county was organized on the twelfth day of March, 1883, and Thomas Peacock, Isaac N. Alderman, and Daniel D. Carpenter were appointed special county commissioners; that the county was thereupon divided into suitable precincts, and an election called to be held on the nineteenth day of July, 1883, for the election of precinct and county…