Radcliffe v. Lavery

This is an action by a taxpayer of Dawson county to enjoin the board of county commissioners of Dawson county, the board of county supervisors of Phelps county, and the state engineer from carrying out certain contracts made with J. E. Doty and Thomas Gass for the construction of two bridges and approaches across the Platte river, one at Lexington and the other at Overton, upon the *32grounds that the money on hand in the bridge fund of Dawson county, together with 85 per cent, of the current levy for bridge purposes, was not sufficient to authorize the county commissioners to enter into the…