Legal Opinion
Rutherford v. City of Great Falls
Montana Supreme Court
Decided January 21, 1939No. 7,909PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
This is an original suit by a taxpayer to enjoin the city of Great Falls and the Great Falls Housing Authority from proceeding further under the provisions of Chapters 138 and 140 of the Session Laws of 1935 (secs. 5309.1 to 5309.34, Rev. Codes). Chapter 138 is known as the Housing Cooperation Law, and Chapter 140 the Housing Authorities Law. The complaint attacks the constitutionality of both Acts, as well as the proceedings already taken thereunder. Defendants have appeared by a joint general demurrer to the complaint.
The chapters in question are similar to those enacted in thirty or more…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Green v. FrazierSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Dornan v. Philadelphia Housing AuthoritySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
- Matter of N.Y. City H. Authority v. MullerNew York Court of Appeals · 1936
- Williamson v. Housing AuthoritySupreme Court of Georgia · 1938
- Wells v. Housing Authority of the City of WilmingtonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1938
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3Cited by41 opinions
- Housing Authority v. HigginbothamTexas Supreme Court · 1940
- The Housing Authority v. DockweilerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1939
- In Re Brewster Street Housing SiteMichigan Supreme Court · 1939
- Chapman v. Huntington, West Virginia, Housing AuthorityWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1939
- Allydonn Realty Corp. v. Holyoke Housing AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
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