In re Apportionment of Indebtedness between Fremont & Big Horn Counties
Wyoming Supreme Court
-ReseRved Questions from the District Court, Sheridan County, Hon. Joseph L. Stotts, Judge. Proceedings for the apportionment of the indebtedness of the original counties of Fremont, Johnson, and Sheridan, between them respectively and the county of Big Horn, created out of territory taken partly from each of ' said original counties. The opinion contains a full statement of the facts.
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-ReseRved Questions from the District Court, Sheridan County, Hon. Joseph L. Stotts, Judge. Proceedings for the apportionment of the indebtedness of the original counties of Fremont, Johnson, and Sheridan, between them respectively and the county of Big Horn, created out of territory taken partly from each of ' said original counties. The opinion contains a full statement of the facts. The power to divide counties and apportion indebtedness is lodged solely in the Legislature. Its action in the premises is final and conclusive. Having appointed a tribunal to make the apportionment, and fixed…
1Opinion of the Court
PotteR, Chief Justice.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE.
The County of Big Horn was finally organized on the 4th day of January, A. D. 1897. The territory embraced therein had formed a part of three several counties, viz.: Fremont, Johnson, and Sheridan, These proceedings *11were instituted bj the- filing in the office of the Clerk of the District Court for Big Horn County of a report of the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Fremont, showing the amount of the indebtedness of that county, at the date of the organization of Big Horn County, and the other matters required by law in such cases. For…
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