Reichard v. Warren County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cla/rk District Court. The plaintiff filed, in tlie Clark district court, an amended petition substantially as follows: “Tbe board of supervisors of said Warren county, on tbe 5th day of September, A. JD. 1865, at a regular session of said board, passed a resolution wbicb is of record in said county, as follows: “ Resolved, By tbe board of supervisors of Warren county, Iowa, that there be submitted to tbe voters of said county, at tbe October election, 1865, the…
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Appeal from Cla/rk District Court. The plaintiff filed, in tlie Clark district court, an amended petition substantially as follows: “Tbe board of supervisors of said Warren county, on tbe 5th day of September, A. JD. 1865, at a regular session of said board, passed a resolution wbicb is of record in said county, as follows: “ Resolved, By tbe board of supervisors of Warren county, Iowa, that there be submitted to tbe voters of said county, at tbe October election, 1865, the question of building a court-house at tbe county seat of said county, and also tbe question of a tax of $40,000 with…
1Opinion of the Court
Ray, Ch. J.
l. county: board of supervisors :erection of public buildings. — I. Prior to the adoption of the Revision, the county judge was the financial agent of the county, and his authority to contract for the erection . , ° . . • . „ oí a court-house was without limit. State ex rel. Brooks v. Napier, 7 Iowa, 425.
The act of March 22,1860, which changed the system of county government, provides : “ That it shall not be competent for said board of supervisors to order the erection of a court-house, jail, poor-house or other building or bridge* nor. the purchase of real estate for county…
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