State ex rel. Ellis v. Switzer

Calkins, C.

This was an original application by the relators, who are citizens and taxpayers of Cass county, for a mandamus to *79compel the respondents, who are the county commissioners of Cass and Sarpy counties, to repair a bridge across the Platte river near Lousiville, in Cass county, where the Platte river forms the boundary between the two counties named. An alternative writ was issued November 7,1906, returnable January 7, 1907; and, the respondents having answered, the cause is now submitted upon the pleadings, an agreed statement of facts, and the depositions of the respondents,…