People ex rel. Putnam v. Commissioners of Buffalo County
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was an application to tbis court for a writ of man-damns. It was based upon affidavits setting forth that the county commissioners of Buffalo county, having determined to erect a bridge across the Platte river at Kearney Junction, for the erection of which precinct bonds had been voted, met on the 29th day of July, 1873, not as a board of commissioners, but informally, and examined plans and specifications submitted to them by the King "Wrought Iron Bridge Company and…
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This was an application to tbis court for a writ of man-damns. It was based upon affidavits setting forth that the county commissioners of Buffalo county, having determined to erect a bridge across the Platte river at Kearney Junction, for the erection of which precinct bonds had been voted, met on the 29th day of July, 1873, not as a board of commissioners, but informally, and examined plans and specifications submitted to them by the King "Wrought Iron Bridge Company and by Henry T. Clarke; that on the following day the commissioners being in regular session, after considering the…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwell, J.
A board of county commissioners are held to be a quasi corporation, a local organization which for purjioses of civil administration is invested with a few of the functions characteristic of a corporate existence. Commissioners of Hamilton County v. Mighels, 7 Ohio State, 115. A grant of powers to such a corporation must be strictly construed. Id., Treadwell v. Commissioners, 11 Id., 190. And in a recent case this court held that “ the grant of powers to such officers must be strictly construed, because when acting under special authority they must act strictly on the conditions under which…
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