State ex rel. McClay v. Mickey
Nebraska Supreme Court
Original application for a writ of mandamus to compel respondent to appoint commissioners to select site for monument.
1Opinion of the CourtHolcomb, C. J.
A writ of mandamus is applied for to require the respondent, the governor, to appoint a commission of five persons whose duty it shall he to supervise the selection of a site on the capitol grounds and the erection of a monument to be dedicated to the memory of the life and public services of President Lincoln. The application is based on what purports to be an act of the legislature which is carried into the laws of 1903, and published as chapter 157 thereof. The governor, we are advised, declines to act through no lack of sympathy for the object sought to be attained, but because of a doubt…
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