Hetzel v. Board of County Commissioners
Nevada Supreme Court
This was an original proceeding in the Supreme Court. It was institued by the relator suing out a writ of certiorari requiring the clerk of the board of county commissioners of Eureka County to certify up the proceedings of said board in reference to certain petitions which had been presented to it for calling an election of county officers as provided in the act creating Eureka County.
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This was an original proceeding in the Supreme Court. It was institued by the relator suing out a writ of certiorari requiring the clerk of the board of county commissioners of Eureka County to certify up the proceedings of said board in reference to certain petitions which had been presented to it for calling an election of county officers as provided in the act creating Eureka County. (Stats. 1873, 107, Sec. 3). These petitions were the same to which reference is made in the case of State ex rel. Hetzel v. Commissioners of HwreJca Gownty, reported ante, 309. It appears from the record and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Hawley, J.:
In the act creating the County of Eureka, it is made the duty of the board of county commissioners to call an election to fill the various county offices on the first Monday in August, 1873, “provided, that five hundred or more of the qualified electors of the County of Eureka shall, on or before the first Monday in July, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-three, petition the board of county commissioners to order an election for county officers.” Stats. 1873,107, Sec. 3.
From the record before us, it appears that petitions containing over five hundred names were…
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