Nelson v. Board of County Commissioners

Sundry taxpayers of Garfield county filed a bill to restrain the board of county commissioners from executing and carrying out a contract to erect a bridge across Grand river. Respecting the bill, it is enough to state it contained all the requisite averments to entitle the complainants to maintain their suit, if the essentials were sustained by proof. A mass of testimony respecting the locality of the bridge and the existence of a highway on the southerly side of the river was produced, but the bulk of it may be dismissed from consideration. The whole case turns on the question of the power…