State ex rel. Berfield v. Board of County Commissioners

By Sp. Laws 1879, c. 248, the relator and others were appointed commissioners to survey, locate and establish a state road in’ the counties of Wright, McLeod and Sibley. The commissioners having, as they supposed, performed their duties, the relator brings the writ of mandamus to compel the county of McLeod to issue the county orders in payment of damages assessed to him for lands lying in that county, and of his expenses and compensation for services apportioned to that county as the act directs. Certainly, so far as it is designed to compel payment of his expenses and *91compensation for his…