United States Ex Rel. Chandler v. Commissioners of Dodge Cty.

Citations

• 110 U.S. 156
• 3 S. Ct. 590
• 28 L. Ed. 103
• 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1668

Syllabus

<p>Internal Improvements — Municipal Bonds — Nebraska—Statutes,—Tax.</p> <p>A wagon bridge across the Platte River is a work of internal improvement within the meaning of the statute of Nebraska of February 15th, 1869; and that statute makes it the duty of county commissioners to levy a tax on the taxable property within a precinct in whose behalf bonds have been issued under that statute to aid in constructing such a bridge, sufficient to pay the annual interest on the bonds, and without regard to any limit imposed by, or voted in accordance with chapter 9 of the Revised Statutes of 1866.</p>