Norton v. City of Duluth
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, James W. Norton, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis County, J. D. Ensign, J., made June 3, 1893, denying his application for a temporary injunction. “The Commonwealth” has not been published for a year. It is a different paper from the “Short Line.” Unless it has been published for one year it is not qualified to do the city printing. A newspaper is of itself a public print and imports publicity.
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Appeal by plaintiff, James W. Norton, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis County, J. D. Ensign, J., made June 3, 1893, denying his application for a temporary injunction. “The Commonwealth” has not been published for a year. It is a different paper from the “Short Line.” Unless it has been published for one year it is not qualified to do the city printing. A newspaper is of itself a public print and imports publicity. A private newspaper would be a contradiction in terms. Bailey v. Myrick, 50 Me. 171. In the state of Illinois, a paper which printed only legal news was held to be,…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
By the terms of the charter of defendant city (Sp. Laws 1887, ch. 2, subeh. 12, § 15) the city council was required at its first meeting in the month of April, in each year, to cause the city clerk to advertise in the then official newspaper for sealed proposals for publishing for the ensuing year the ordinances, official proceedings of the council, and other matters required to be officially published, in some daily newspaper which had been printed,- published, and in general circulation in said city for at least six months prior to such advertising. On or about April 1, 1893, notice was…
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