State ex rel. Willard v. Stearns

Maxwell, Ch. J.

It appears from the record that on the sixteenth day of June, 1879, it having been made to appear to the governor by the affidavits of three resident freeholders of Nance county that said county contained a population of not less than two hundred inhabitants, and that ten or more of the same were tax payers therein who petitioned the governor to appoint O. E. Stearns, George S. McChesney, and J. W. Whitney to act as special county commissioners in and for said county. That thereupon the governor did appoint the persons above named special commissioner^, who qualified and…