State ex rel. Birmingham v. Dinsmore
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was an application for a mandamus requiring John B. Dinsmore, county clerk of Olay county, to call to bis assistance two disinterested electors in said county and proceed to re-canvass the votes cast at an election held in said county on the twentieth day of September, 1875, for the relocation of the county seat.
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This was an application for a mandamus requiring John B. Dinsmore, county clerk of Olay county, to call to bis assistance two disinterested electors in said county and proceed to re-canvass the votes cast at an election held in said county on the twentieth day of September, 1875, for the relocation of the county seat. At that time one F. M. Brown was the clerk of that county and a member of the canvassing board, a majority of whom rejected thirty-three votes cast in Edgar precinct, whereby, under the law in reference to the removal of county seats, Sutton would remain the county seat of that…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
This cause is heard upon an alternative writ of mandamus, and the answer thereto, and proofs. It appears that an election was held in Olay county upon the question of the relocation of the county seat, which resulted in no choice of a place; and therefore, under proclamation duly made, a second election was ordered to be held on the twentieth day of September, 1875, designating “ Fairfield, Sutton, or Harvard,” as the eligible places or candidates for the location of the county seat.
Upon a canvass of the votes cast at this election, the board of canvassers rejected thirty-three votes cast in…
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