Packard v. Snyder
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Blackhaiulc District Court. — Hon. A. S. Blair, . Judge. This is a contest over the selection of “official newspapers” for the county of Blackhawk for the year 1899. The firm of Packard & Mills appealed from the order made by the board of supervisors. E.' Duke Naven and Jacob Schmidt join in this appeal from the judgment of the district court.
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
I. Section 441 of the Code, as applied' to Blackhawk county, it having a population of over seventeen thousand, required the board of supervisor to select “three papers, not more than two of which shall be published in the same town.” Said section, after providing how, in case of contest, the applicants shall prove the number of their bona fide yearly subscribers living within the county, provides as follows: “And the 2 [in this case 3] applicants thus showing the greatest number of bona, fide yearly subscribers living within the county shall be the county official papers.”- The firm of…
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