State Ex Rel. King v. Lothrop

County commissioners can only exercise such powers as are specially granted, or as may be necessarily incidental for the purpose of carrying such powers into effect; and when the law prescribes the mode which they must pursue in the exercise of these powers, it excludes all other modes of procedure. Waite v. Ormsby Co., 1 Nev. 370; State v. Washoe Co., 6 Nev. 104; State v. Central Pac. Ry., 9 Nev. 79; Sadler v. Eureka Co., 15 Nev. 39; Godchaux v. Carpenter, 19 Nev. 415, 14 P. 140; State v. Washoe Co., 22 Nev. 15, 34 P. 1057; Lyon Co. v. Ross, 24 Nev. 102,50 P. 1.

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