McNair v. State ex rel. Powers

Reese, Ch. J.

This was an application to the district court for a peremptory writ of mandamus to the board of county commissioners of Loup county for the purpose of compelling them to vacate an order made by them on the 4th day of October, 1887, declaring a section-line road previously ordered open, “ no road, for the reason that the public good does not justify the expense.”

*258It was alleged in the relation that the plaintiffs in error were the board of county commissioners of Loup county, McNair being chairman; that on the 12th day of October, 1886, Caleb Jeffers, Thomas J. McNair, and Wilber…