Meistrell v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This was a suit to enjoin the commissioners of Ellis county from carrying out a contract for the building of a bridge or the appropriation of public money to pay for the bridge.

On November 4, 1905, the commissioners determined to build a bridge over the Saline river, and advertised for bids for its construction, specifying that it should be a “stone or cement bridge with a span or arch forty-eight feet, to be fourteen feet above low-water level, with a sixteen-foot roadway, iron guard-rails,, with one seventy-foot wing and one…