State Ex Rel. City of Berkeley v. Holmes

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HYDE, J.

Mandamtis to compel the State Auditor to register bonds of the City of Berkeley, a fourth class city in St. Louife County, under Section 3306’ R. ’S. 1939, Mb. Stati Ann.' The 'question for decisión is whether the special election authorizing the bonds was invalid because of insufficient 'publication of notice.

The notice 'of this election, held December 2, 1947, was published'on November 13, 20 and 26, 1947, in a St. Louis County news- ' paper published in the -nearby city of Ferguson, there being’ no newspaper in Berkeley. Thus the first .publication was only nineteen’days…