State ex rel. Wade v. Kenney

The affidavit of the relator contains the following allegations: “ Tliat he was duly appointed in the year 1889 one of the code commissioners under an act of the legislative assembly of the Territory (now State) of Montana, entitled ‘ An act to provide for the appointment of a commission to codify the criminal and civil law and procedure, and to revise, compile, and arrange the statute laws of Montana,’ approved March 14, 1889. That ever since such appointment, he has acted as such commissioner in the preparation of the four Codes provided for in said act. That said Codes have been prepared…