State ex rel. Hopkins v. Raub

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This is a mandamus proceeding brought by the state to compel the county clerk to join in the execution of bonds authorized by a vote of the electors of Shawnee county, to pay for the permanent improvement of a highway. *198The defendant questions the validity of the act under which the bonds were authorized, and he also alleges that no provision has been made for the payment of the bonds which would accrue in 1920, and further that it is proposed to issue bonds in excess of the expenditure already made towards the improvement. It appears…