People ex rel. Gere v. Weston
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was an application for a mandamus brought in tbe district court of Lancaster county. Tbe defendant had judgment, and tbe relators brought tbe cause here by petition in error.
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This was an application for a mandamus brought in tbe district court of Lancaster county. Tbe defendant had judgment, and tbe relators brought tbe cause here by petition in error. Tbe opinion states tbe case, except that portion of tbe petition of tbe relators which contains tbe contract under which tbe relators were executing tbe public printing, and that portion of tbe defendant’s answer which sets up tbe mode of computation pursued by tbe auditing board, of which tbe defendant was a member. These facts, however, are fully set forth in tbe previous case where tbe contract under which tbe…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
The relators, in substance, say that in December, 1872, they entered into a contract with the proper officers of the state to do the state printing; that a part of the work was the printing of five thousand volumes of the General Statutes, and that by an act approved February 27, 1873, as this work progressed, the secretary of state certified to *319tbe auditor of state an estimate of the value of the work accomplished) and the latter issued warrants to them for seventy-five per cent, of the value thereof; but that on the twenty-second day of September, 1873, the secretary made an estimate of…
2Cited by17 opinions
- People ex rel. Putnam v. Commissioners of Buffalo CountyNebraska Supreme Court · 1875
- State v. Omaha Elevator Co.Nebraska Supreme Court · 1906
- Hamilton v. BayerNebraska Supreme Court · 1928
- State ex rel. Thayer v. School DistrictNebraska Supreme Court · 1916
- Central Nebraska Public Power & Irrigation District v. WalstonNebraska Supreme Court · 1941
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