Appel v. State ex rel. Shutter-Cottrell
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Sweetwater County, ELon. David H. Craig, Judge. This was a suit in mandamus, wherein the relator, G. W. Shutter-Cottrell sought to have the respondent, Peter Appel, as the chairman of the board of county commissioners, commanded to sign a certain county warrant ordered issued to the relator, by the board, upon the allowance of his claim for services performed as an attorney in assisting the county attorney in defending a suit against the board.
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Error to the District Court, Sweetwater County, ELon. David H. Craig, Judge. This was a suit in mandamus, wherein the relator, G. W. Shutter-Cottrell sought to have the respondent, Peter Appel, as the chairman of the board of county commissioners, commanded to sign a certain county warrant ordered issued to the relator, by the board, upon the allowance of his claim for services performed as an attorney in assisting the county attorney in defending a suit against the board. The District Court awarded a peremptory writ, and the respondent prosecuted error. The facts are stated in the opinion.…
1Opinion of the Court
Pottee, Chief Justice.
This was an application in the district court on the relation of G. W. Shutter-Cottrell for a writ of mandamus to compel Peter Appel, the chairman of the board of county commissioners, to sign a warrant ordered to be issued by the board to the relator in the sum of two hum dred dollars.
The allegations of the petition are substantially as follows: That said Appel is the legally chosen chairman of the Board of county commissioners of Sweetwater County; that on April 5, 1899, the» said board at a regular session thereof allowed a claim of the relator in the sum of two…
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