Hersey v. Neilson
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Hill County; J. E. Erickson, Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District, presiding. Action by P. H. Hersey against Ever Neilson and others, county commissioners, and J. A. Rose, county treasurer, of Hill county, Montana. Judgment for plaintiff and defendants appeal.
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Appeal from District Court, Hill County; J. E. Erickson, Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District, presiding. Action by P. H. Hersey against Ever Neilson and others, county commissioners, and J. A. Rose, county treasurer, of Hill county, Montana. Judgment for plaintiff and defendants appeal. It is our contention that a county is a municipal corporation, having .governmental and proprietary functions; that as to the former, the state’s control is supreme, but as to the latter, the state’s control is no more extensive than it is over private corporations; that county printing is a matter solely…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holloway
On March 8, 1912, the board of county commissioners of Hill county, Montana, let a contract to B. B. Weldy, proprietor and publisher of the “Chester Signal,” a newspaper which had been published in Hill county for more than six months prior thereto, to do the county printing, including the furnishing of blanks, blank books, etc. Thereafter Weldy sublet to the Shaw-Borden Company, of Spokane, Washington, the contract to furnish all blank record books, warrant books, certificate books, registers, and bound books of- every description to be used by the county. *140This action was commenced by a…
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- Jones v. Commissioners.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1905
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