State Ex Rel. Veeder v. State Board of Education

The relator, William Veeder, as a taxpayer and student at the University of Montana, seeks to enjoin the state board of education and the members thereof from proceeding with their perfected plan to erect and maintain a students’ union building at the State University in the city of Missoula.

Relator’s petition alleges that the respondents are threatening to, and unless restrained will, incur debts, obligations and liabilities against the state, the University, and the student body, contrary to the Constitution and laws of Montana; it sets forth the plan and the authority under which the board…