State ex rel. City of Lincoln v. Babcock

Maxwell, Oh. J.

This is an application for a mandamus against the secretary of state and auditor to compel them to register “ and under their seal of office certify upon” bonds to the amount of $50,000 issued as a donation to the Missouri Pacific Railway, “ that they have been regularly and legally issued,” etc. The relator alleges in its petition that,

“3d. Prior to the 10th day of October, 1885, in due conformity to law, the relator, the city of Lincoln, had issued its bonds in aid of the construction of works of internal improvement, as follows:

In 1872, to the Atchison & Nebraska Railroad…