Knapp v. Swaney

The facts of this case, so far as material to the decision, are the following:

The county of Lenawee by popular vote, in the year 1882, decided to raise $50,000 for the construction of a court-house. In providing for the construction the board of supervisors appointed a “ committee on court-house,” to whom it was proposed to refer all matters relating to the building. Of this committee the respondent Swariey was chairman, and the respondent Hunter clerk, and they have continued to be such officers to the present time. It was among the powers conferred upon them that they were .to draw orders…