Pauly Jail-Bldg. & Manuf'g Co. v. Board of Com'rs
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United Stales for the District of Kansas. This was an action by the l’auly Jail-Building & Manufacturing Company against the hoard of county commissioners of Kearney county, Kansas, on a, contract for the erection of cells in a jail. Judgment was rendered in the circuit court for the defendants. Plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Is it beyond the powers of the board of county commissioners of a county in the stale of Kansas to make a contract for the manufacture and erection of cells in the cell room of the jail building of the county without submitting the question of the purchase of such cells to the voters of the county? This is the single question presented in this case. The Pauly Jail-Building & Manufacturing Company, the plaintiff in error, brought an action in the court below against the board of county commissioners of Kearney county, Kan., the defendant in error, to recover the purchase…
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