State ex rel. Nichols v. Field

The relator alleges in his information “That at the general election of 1886, the county of Box Butte was erected out of territory belonging prior thereto to Dawes county; * * * that the governor issued his proclamation ordering an election of county officers for such new county upon *394March 8,1887, as provided by law, at which election all the county officers of said new county of Box Butte were duly elected. That at said election, A. S. Reed, L. C. DeCondress, and James Barry, were elected county commissioners for such new county, and that said board of county commissioners, in the month of…