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COMMISSIONERS v. SELLEW

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99 U.S. 624 (1879)

25 L.Ed. 333

COMMISSIONERS, v. SELLEW.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 3, 1879.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Matt. H. Carpenter for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. E. Stillings, Mr. L.B. Wheat, and Mr. T.A. Hurd, contra.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

In the State of Kansas counties are bodies corporate and politic, capable of suing and being sued. Their powers are exercised by boards of county commissioners chosen by the electors. The name by which they can sue or be sued is the "Board of County Commissioners of the County of ____." In legal proceedings against a county, process is served on the clerk of the board. 1 Dassler's Kans. Stat. 217-221, sects...

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