US SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

A wagon bridge across the Platte River is a work of internal improvement within the meaning of the statute of Nebraska of February 15, 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.

Petition for writ of mandamus, refused below, and brought up by writ of error.