Stream v. Gordy

WIGGINS, Justice.

In this case, we must decide whether the district court was correct when it found the county supervisors acted illegally by refusing to provide full-time compensation and benefits to an employee shared between the county attorney’s and the assessor’s offices. We must also decide whether the county is responsible for the legal fees of the county attorney’s and the assessor’s outside counsel. Because the members of the board of supervisors were exercising a legislative function at the time they disapproved the full-time compensation and benefits for the shared employee, a writ…