State ex rel. Barrett v. Board of Commissioners
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Pratt District Court. This was an action brought in the district court in the name of The State, by William Barrett, county attorney of Pratt county, to perpetually enjoin John Burkholder, E. N. "Watson and J. D. Fitzsimmons, county commissioners, Demcy Lewis, county clerk, E. W. Farmer, county treasurer, and James K. Beauchamp and Tirzah F. Beauchamp, from carrying into effect a certain transaction whereby the Beauchamps sold and conveyed 240 acres of land to…
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Error from Pratt District Court. This was an action brought in the district court in the name of The State, by William Barrett, county attorney of Pratt county, to perpetually enjoin John Burkholder, E. N. "Watson and J. D. Fitzsimmons, county commissioners, Demcy Lewis, county clerk, E. W. Farmer, county treasurer, and James K. Beauchamp and Tirzah F. Beauchamp, from carrying into effect a certain transaction whereby the Beauchamps sold and conveyed 240 acres of land to Pratt county, and received in payment therefor a county warrant or scrip signed by the chairman of the board of county…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
The principal question involved in this case is with reference to the validity or invalidity of a certain purchase by the board of county commissioners of Pratt county, of certain real estate to be used for a poor-farm. The authority given by statute to the board of county commissioners to purchase laud to be used for such a purpose, and to levy taxes *645to pay for the land so purchased, will be found in §§ 25 and 29 of the act relating to relief for the poor. (Comp. Laws of 1885, ch. 79, §§25, 29.) These sections read as follows:
“Sec. 25.…
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