Stenberg v. State ex rel. Keller

George W. Doane and Charles B. Keller filed a claim against the county of Douglas to recover a sum of money which they alleged they had paid the county in consideration of the sale to them of certain real estate by the county or its commissioners; alleging further that the attempted sale was of none effect, for lack of authority in the commissioners to make it, hence the vendees had received no consideration for the money paid and demanded its repayment. The claim was rejected by the county commissioners, from which action an appeal was duly perfected to the district court, where, as the…