State ex rel. A. & N. R. R. v. County Commissioners
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was an application for a mandamus to,compel the commissioners of Lancaster county to issue $20,000 in the bonds of Capitol precinct, and to place the same in the hands of a trustee to be delivered to the relator upon compliance with the terms upon which the bonds were issued.
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwell, J.
On the sixteenth of October, 1875, an election was held in Capitol precinct, Lancaster county, to determine whether the precinct would issue its bonds in the sum of $20,000.00.to the A. & N. E. E. Co., to aid in an ex*215tension of its road. A majority of the votes cast at the election were in favor of the proposition, and the county commissioners of said county, after a canvass of the same, declared the proposition carried. By the terms of the proposition the bonds were to be issued and placed in the hands of a trustee, to be delivered to the company when a certain portion of the proposed…
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