Smith v. Van Buren County

At the January, 1899, session of the hohrd of supervisors of the defendant county the plaintiff, as the publisher of a newspaper known as the State Line Democrat, and one E. H. Rockwell, as publisher of another newspaper known as the Farmington Herald, applied to have their respective papers selected as the county official paper for the ensuing year,- as provided in Code, section 441. A contest arising, the board gave its decision in favor of the plaintiff, from which decision Rockwell appealed to the district court, by which tribunal the decision of the board of supervisors was affirmed.…