Nugent v. Arizona Improvement Co.

Citations

• 173 U.S. 338
• 19 S. Ct. 461
• 43 L. Ed. 721
• 1899 U.S. LEXIS 1439

Syllabus

<p>Under the act of March 8, 1895, of the legislature of the Territory of Arizona, relating to convict labor and the leasing of the same, the board of control thereby created and given charge of all charitable, penal and reformatory institutions then existing, or which might thereafter be created in the Territory, could not dispense with the bond required by the statute to be given by the person or persons leasing the labor of the convicts, for the faithful performance of their contract; and no contract ■ made by the board leasing the labor of the convicts could become binding upon the Territory, until a bond, such as the statute required, was executed by the lessee and approved by the hom'd.</p> <p>In this case as it appears that no such bond was executed, the plaintiff was not in a position to- ask relief by mandamus.</p>