State ex rel. Hadley v. Adkins

The Attorney-General sued out a writ of certiorari against defendants, the justices of the county court of McDonald county. The theory of the petition was that defendants, as such justices, had violated article 6, chapter 97, Revised Statutes 1899, relating to county depositaries. Section 6817 of that article ordains that the county courts, as a condition precedent to receiving proposals and accepting bids from hanks or bankers to become county depositaries, shall publish a notice in some newspaper of the county for twenty days before the commencement of the May term of the court at which the…