State ex rel. County of Douglas v. McShane

The relator brought this action in the district court for Douglas county for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent, as sheriff of that county, to allow the relator and the firm of Garnipee & Flannigan admission to the jail of Douglas county in order to furnish meals to the prisoners confined therein for and during the year 1912 under a contract entered into for that purpose between the county commissioners and said firm under the provisions of section 5, ch. 28, Comp. St. 1905, as amended by chapter 53, laws 1907. The respondent filed an answer to the alternative writ. The district…