New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-04-18
Court House Decision.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. } District

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County Commissioners of the County of
Brown, E. P. Bertrand as County Au-
ditor of said County and Richard Pfef-
ferle, as County Treasurer of said
| County.
This cause was tried before the I'M
dersigned Judge of the District Court
for the Sixth Judicial District acting
for the Judge of the Ninth judicial Dis
trict, and at General Term of said
District Court for said County Of Brown
and on the 3rd day of January 1883
without jury.
| The cause was afterwards submitted
| forkdecision on written arguments. j.
III. Thompson and Lorin Gray appeared
for the plaintiff and Lind & Hagberg
and Pau & freeman appeared for the
defendants.
Now having heard and considered
the proofs and allegations of the par
ties. it is found as matters of fact:
That the County OF Brown is and has
been corporation as in the complaint
alleged.
Thatthe persons mentioned in the
complaint as County Commissioners of
the said County Of Brown are and have
been such Commissioners as in said
com ,olaint alleged.
That the defendants E. P. Bertrand
and Richard Pfeferle have been and
are Treasurer and County Auditor of
said County as alleged in the complaint.
| That thes.said County of Brown con-
structed county offices and buildings as
in the complaint alleged; that all of
said buildings are old, dilapidated, de-
fective and in size and construction
wholly insufficient for the purposes of
said county and cannot be repaired so
as to answer the purposes of said coun-
ty for county buildings.
That it is necessary and the interests
of said county demand that it should
erect new Court House in and for the
! use of said county and to contain all of
the county Offices for said county and
| that $3.50, 900 will be the reasonable cost
of the same.
That the plaintiff is and has been a
resident and taxpayer of and in said
county as in the complaint alleged and
now is such resident, property owner
and taxpayer.
/ That the Board of County Commits
sioners of the County of Brown propose
and intend and have determined to
erect new Court House building to
contain the principal county offices OF
said county on tract of land in the
City of New Ulm IN said county called
Court House Square, the same being
Block LOG in said City of New Ulm at a
cost of 1886, 1000, and at once to incur
and create a pecuniary liability on the
part of said county to the amount $685.
! 600.
4 That the said county of Brown has
i funds on hand to the amount of SIS, 900
including the sum Of $1,000 which it
has already become liable to pay on ac-
count of constructing the foundation
for said Court House building as here.
matter stated, and including the sum
of So, 200 tax Of 1887.
| That to erect said Court House it will
be necessary for said county to incur
an Indebtedness or pecuniary liability
to the extent of $4,000 over and above
said sum of SIS, 900 now on hand, and
the said Comfy Commissioners intend
and propose at once to contract and
incur such Indebtedness and pecuniary
liability on the part Of said county, and
to issue the warrants or bonds Of said
County in the aggregate to the amount
of 100000 payable to the amount OF
1 $4,000 in the year 1895 and $4,000 each
year thereafter until the same shall be
fully paid, said warrants OF bonds to
bear interest at the rate of five per cent.
4 per annum, payable annually.
/ That the assessed valuation of all the
taxable property in said county for the
/ year 1887 as the same is equalized, is
| S4.032,000.
| That there were duly levied and as
sessed in sais county and against the
taxable property therein in the year
i 1887 taxes as follows For revenue
fund $4,000. Poor fund $4,000. Court
. House fund SO, 200 in all $4,000, and
said So, 200 was assessed and levied fol
the purpose of building the Court
House in question.
a That the current expenses of said
| county are about $4,000 per annum.
| That said county is indebted in the
| sum of $50, 900 for which it has issued
4 its bonds, but this Indebtedness was
authorized by special laws.