Commissioners of Sedgwick County v. Bunker
Supreme Court of Kansas
Original Proceedings in Mandamus. Petition for a mandamus filed in this court in December 1875 by the Board of County Comm’rs of Sedgwick Co., as plaintiff, to compel Bunker, as county clerk of Harvey county, to enter upon the tax-roll of his county, and against the taxable real estate therein which was detached from Sedgwick county and included within the new county of Harvey created by §5 of ch. 97, Laws of 1872, (p.184,) certain taxes certified to him.
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Original Proceedings in Mandamus. Petition for a mandamus filed in this court in December 1875 by the Board of County Comm’rs of Sedgwick Co., as plaintiff, to compel Bunker, as county clerk of Harvey county, to enter upon the tax-roll of his county, and against the taxable real estate therein which was detached from Sedgwick county and included within the new county of Harvey created by §5 of ch. 97, Laws of 1872, (p.184,) certain taxes certified to him. An alternative writ was issued. Bunker answered, and among other reasons for not inserting said taxes, he submitted that, at the time said…
1Opinion of the Court
*500The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
1 county indebtedness-divison of counties. Statutes construed. Ch.142, Laws of 1873, held valid, On the 29th of February 1872, the county of Harvey was created, and in establishing the boundaries thereof a certain strip of territory was detached from the county of Sedgwick, and incorporated into the county of Harvey. (Laws of 1872, p. 184, § 5.) At the same time, and by the same act, the legislature specifically expressed their intention that said detached territory should not be relieved from any obligation which it was then under to pay…
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