Gossard v. Vaught
Supreme Court of Kansas
M’ror from Butler District Court. Injunction, brought by W. P. Gossard and L. B. Snow, citizens, taxpayers arid legal voters of the town of Eldorado, against Vaught and others as county commissioners of Butler county, to enjoin the defendants from canvassing the votes cast at and returned from the several election precincts of said county at an election held on the 1st day of June 1872 “for the removal and relocation of the county-seat of said Butler coitnty.”
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M’ror from Butler District Court. Injunction, brought by W. P. Gossard and L. B. Snow, citizens, taxpayers arid legal voters of the town of Eldorado, against Vaught and others as county commissioners of Butler county, to enjoin the defendants from canvassing the votes cast at and returned from the several election precincts of said county at an election held on the 1st day of June 1872 “for the removal and relocation of the county-seat of said Butler coitnty.” The petition for the relocation of the county-seat was presented to the county board February 16th, 1872. A majority of the votes cast…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
But a single question is presented in this case. Is a county-seat election held by order of the county commissioners more than fifty days after the presentation of the petition therefor, a valid election? The law under which this election was held is ch. 26, of the Gen. Stat., p. 296. As preliminary to such an election a petition therefor must be presented to the county board. > This must be signed by a certain proportion of the electors. Upon the filing of such petition it is made the duty of the county board to order an election. Sec. 5 of…
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