Turner v. Comm'rs of Jefferson County
Supreme Court of Kansas
Original Proceedings in Mandamus. Turner and fifty-three others, as plaintiffs, filed their petition in this court, alleging that they were qualified voters and freeholders of Nock Creek township, county of Jefferson, and as such qualified voters and freeholders of said township of Nock Creek they had made and presented to The Board of County Commissioners of the county of Jefferson, their petition in writing praying said board “to submit to the qualified voters of such…
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Original Proceedings in Mandamus. Turner and fifty-three others, as plaintiffs, filed their petition in this court, alleging that they were qualified voters and freeholders of Nock Creek township, county of Jefferson, and as such qualified voters and freeholders of said township of Nock Creek they had made and presented to The Board of County Commissioners of the county of Jefferson, their petition in writing praying said board “to submit to the qualified voters of such township of Nock Creek a proposition to take stock to the amount of $20,000” in the A. T. & S. F. railroad, proposed to be…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
The decision of the case of Bobbett v. Dresher, (ante 9,) in Avhich the opinion has just been filed, disposes of this case. This is an application for a mandamus; and the only interest the plaintiffs sIioav is, that they are qualified voters and freeholders of Rock Creek toAvnship. The relief *22sought is, the passing by the county board of an order directing and causing an election to be held in such township on the question of issuing bond's. It comes plainly within the rule laid down in that case. This question was raised upon motion to…
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