State Ex Rel. Schultz-Lindsay Construction Co. v. State Board of Equalization

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an original proceeding. On March 31, 1965, relator filed a petition requesting this court to accept original jurisdiction of a declaratory judgment action to test the validity of House Bill 506, enacted into law by the Thirty-ninth Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, as Chapter 277 of the Laws of 1965. Hereafter, for brevity, this will be referred to as the Act.

Relator alleged in its petition that the United States of America, through its Bureau of Public Roads, participates financially in the construction…