Commissioners v. Sellew
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court óf the United States for the District of Kansas. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
In the State of Kansas counties are bodies corporate and politic, capable of suing and being sued. Their powers are exercised by boards of county commissioners chosen by the electors.. The name by which they can sue or be sued is the “ Board of County Commissioners of the County of-.” In legal proceedings against a county, process is served on the clerk of the board. 1 Dassler’s Kans. Stat. 217-221, sects. 1, 3, 5, 6, 9.
The boards of county commissioners are authorized “ to apportion and order the levying of taxes as provided by law ” (1 id. 224, sect. 16, sub. 4), and they are required to…
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