State ex rel. Newman v. Wise

Lake, Ch. J.

This is an application for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the defendants "to execute and deliver to the relator a county warrant for the sum of four dollars and twenty-five cents, being the amount of an account for nails furnished by him to the county of Platte •for the repair of its bridges, and duly audited and allowed by the board of county commissioners. ■

*314Our decision upon the application requires a construction of the following provision in section 25 of the act “concerning counties and county officers,” approved March 1st, 1879, viz: “ It shall be the duty of the…