People Ex Rel. Rogers v. . Spencer

The jurisdiction of the county judge to exercise the authority conferred by the act under which the proceedings were instituted for bonding the town of Greenwood depended upon the presentation to him, in the first instance, of a petition in conformity with the act. (Laws 1869, chap. 907, as amended by chap. 925, Laws 1871.)

The first section provides that the petition shall state that the petitioners constitute a majority of the tax-payers representing a majority of the property appearing and assessed upon the last preceding assessment or tax roll of the municipal corporation to which the…