Shoshone County v. Rollins

Citations

• 11 Idaho 314
• 82 P. 105
• 1905 Ida. LEXIS 59

Syllabus

<p>Board of County Commissioners — Special Meeting — Bonds—Erecting Courthouse and Jail.</p> <p>1. Under the provisions of seetion 1757 of the Revised Statutes, providing for special meetings' of the board of county eommissionersi and requiring that the order therefor must specify the business to be transacted at such special meeting where an order was made calling a special meeting ‘ ‘ for the purpose of raising funds to purchase a site for a new courthouse and erecting a courthouse in said county,” such notice is sufficient to authorize the board to submit the question to the electors of the county whether bonds should be issued “for the purpose of purchasing a site, erecting a courthouse and jail and furnishing the same,” where it is shown that the jail is to be a room in the courthouse or that the courthouse and jail constitute one building.</p> <p>2. Held, that the bonds issued in pursuance of such proceedings and election were valid.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>