State ex rel. Cashman v. Carmean

This is an action brought in the name of the state of Nebraska, upon the relation of an elector and taxpayer, for a writ of mandamus to require the respondent mayor, in his official capacity, to certify to the governor of the state that the city of Chadron has decreased in population to a city of less than 5,000 and more than 1,000 inhabitants, as ascertained and officially promulgated by the census and enumeration taken under and by authority of the United States government in the year 1930 (in compliance with section 17-162, Comp. St. Supp. 1939). The relator’s petition sets forth the…