People ex rel. Dean v. Board of County Commissioners
Supreme Court of Colorado
This cause came on for rehearing on the demurrer interposed by the relator to the return made by the respondents to an alternative writ of mandamus. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
■Beck, J.
In the. opinion recently announced in this case, it was held that at the time of the election in Grand county to determine the question of the removal of the county seat, no law existed upon that subject authorizing the election. For this reason the steps taken to change the county seat were held to be void.
This conclusion was arrived at from the following, among other considerations, to wit: that the territorial statute (sec. 42, ch. XX, R. S., as amended by the act of February 9, 1816), which constituted the only law on the subject of the removal of county seats, was a special or…
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- State v. BarbeeIndiana Supreme Court · 1852
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