Humboldt County v. County Commissioners
Nevada Supreme Court
This was an original application made in the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamns. It was made in behalf of Humboldt County against J. M. Sanford, James S. Gregory and J. S. Hall, county commissioners of Churchill County.
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This was an original application made in the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamns. It was made in behalf of Humboldt County against J. M. Sanford, James S. Gregory and J. S. Hall, county commissioners of Churchill County. In response to the petition, which was filed February 21, 1870, an alternative writ was issued, to which the defendants made answer, tendering the various issues decided in the case, and also setting up that there was an understanding and agreement between Churchill and Humboldt counties, upon which the statute of 1869, referred to in the opinion, was predicated. This…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lewis, C. J. :
The second section of an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, entitled An Act to create Counties and establish the Boundaries thereof,” (Statutes of 1869, p. 88) directs the county commissioners of Churchill County “ to set apart annually for five years the sum of three thousand dollars, out of revenues of said county, which sum shall be paid to Humboldt County each year until the sum of fifteen thousand dollars shall be paid.” It also provides that “on or before the first day of January in each year the…
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