Lawson v. Board of Commissioners

' The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

This was an action of mandamus brought originally in this court on June 11, 1891, by John H. Lawson against G. M. Zimmerman, W. P. D. Flemming, and William Potter, the board of county commissioners, and S. J. Morris, the county clerk,' and J. M. Anderson, the county treasurer, of Eeno county, to compel the defendants to recognize the plaintiff as the county auditor of Eeno county. The General Statutes of 1889 contain an article, No. 13, divided into paragraphs or sections numbered from 1840 to 1859, under which the plaintiff claims that…