State ex rel. Lord v. Board of Supervisor
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPLICATION for mandamus. . The relator, on the fifteenth day of May, 1850, applied to the chief justice for an order upon the supervisors of Washington county, to show cause on the first day of the next succeeding term of. the supreme court why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not issue, commanding them to proceed forthwith to let the contract for the erection of a court-house and jail, and fire-proof clerk’s and register’s office, at the village of Port Washington, in…
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APPLICATION for mandamus. . The relator, on the fifteenth day of May, 1850, applied to the chief justice for an order upon the supervisors of Washington county, to show cause on the first day of the next succeeding term of. the supreme court why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not issue, commanding them to proceed forthwith to let the contract for the erection of a court-house and jail, and fire-proof clerk’s and register’s office, at the village of Port Washington, in said county, and to proceed to the erection of the same -without delay, and to levy a tax to defray the expense of the…
1Opinion of the Court
JacésoN, J.
An application is made to this court for a peremptory mandamus, to be directed to the board of supervisors of Washington coiinty, commanding them to proceed, *555under the act of the last session of the legislature, to let, to the lowest bidder, the contract for the erection of the county buildings, and to levy an additional tax upon the taxable property of the county for the puipose of defraying the expense and cost of their erection.
A writ of mandamus is the highest judicial writ known to our constitution and laws, and, according to 'long approved and well established authorities,…
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