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State ex rel. Hynds v. Cahill

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided February 18, 1904PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Reserved questions from the District Court, Laramie County, HoN. Richard H. Scott, Judge. The material facts, and the questions reserved for the decision of the court, are stated in the opinion.

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Reserved questions from the District Court, Laramie County, HoN. Richard H. Scott, Judge. The material facts, and the questions reserved for the decision of the court, are stated in the opinion. It is competent and is the duty of courts to consult legis-; lative journals in reference to matter which the constitution expressly requires to be recorded therein, concerning the procedure prescribed by the constitution for the passage ox an act, and the journals may be used to impeach the enrolled act. (Brown v. Nash, 1 Wyo., 85; State v. Swan, 7 Wyo., 166.) The journals imply verity; and are the…

1Opinion of the Court

Potter, Justice.

February 21, 1902, the petition of the relator was filed in the District Court for the County of Laramie, praying for a writ of mandamus to require the respondents, the County Clerk, Treasurer and Sheriff, respectively, of said County of Laramie to prepare, issue and deliver to the relator two licenses, authorizing him to carry on in a certain place designated in the City of Cheyenne, in said county, the games of faro and roulette for the period of three months from the 21st day of February, 1902. It was alleged in detail that all the things required to be performed by the…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Attorney General v. MeadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1879
  2. State ex rel. Attorney General v. FrancisSupreme Court of Kansas · 1882
  3. People ex rel. Crowell v. LawrenceNew York Supreme Court · 1862
  4. Comm'rs of Leavenworth Co. v. HigginbothamSupreme Court of Kansas · 1876
  5. Webster v. City of HastingsNebraska Supreme Court · 1900

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Home Telegraph Co. v. Mayor of NashvilleTennessee Supreme Court · 1906
  2. Holman v. PabstCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1930
  3. State Ex Rel. Board of Commissioners v. WrightWyoming Supreme Court · 1945
  4. Broaddus v. JamesCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1910
  5. George Bolln Co. v. North Platte Valley Irrigation Co.Wyoming Supreme Court · 1912

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