State ex rel. Swift v. County Commissioners
Nevada Supreme Court
This was a certiorari issuing out of the Supreme Court to the board of county commissioners of Ormsby County, consisting of H. E. Rice, S. E. Jones and A. B. Driesbach. The return contained the minutes of the board, showing the facts as stated in the opinion. I. The powers of the county commissioners are limited, and the jurisdiction must specially and affirmatively appear. (Finch v. Tehama Co., 29 Cal. 455; Rosenthal v. Madison Ind. Turnpike Co., 10 Ind. 358.) II.
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This was a certiorari issuing out of the Supreme Court to the board of county commissioners of Ormsby County, consisting of H. E. Rice, S. E. Jones and A. B. Driesbach. The return contained the minutes of the board, showing the facts as stated in the opinion. I. The powers of the county commissioners are limited, and the jurisdiction must specially and affirmatively appear. (Finch v. Tehama Co., 29 Cal. 455; Rosenthal v. Madison Ind. Turnpike Co., 10 Ind. 358.) II. County commissioners have no jurisdiction to “ equalize, modify, or discharge an assessment,” unless application is made…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lewis, C. J.:
The record in this proceeding shows that on the eleventh day of January, a.d. 1870, the Virginia and Truekee Railroad Company, by its attorney, appeared before the County Commissioners of Or'msby County, and applied to have the supplemental assessment of its property for the year a.d. 1869 equalized; which application it appears the board refused to consider. On the twenty-fifth day of the same month, the motion to equalize was renewed, taken under advisement, and two weeks afterwards this order was made and entered upon the records. “ On motion of Mr. Jones, and by…
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