Edmonds v. Herbrandson
North Dakota Supreme Court
PPEAL from district court, Traill county; Hon. William B. McConnell, Judge.' Action by Arthur Edmonds and others against Peter Herbrandson and others, officers of Traill county, to restrain them from removing the county records from Caledonia to Hillsboro. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal. The act in controversy offends against our constitutional provision that “all laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation.”
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PPEAL from district court, Traill county; Hon. William B. McConnell, Judge.' Action by Arthur Edmonds and others against Peter Herbrandson and others, officers of Traill county, to restrain them from removing the county records from Caledonia to Hillsboro. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal. The act in controversy offends against our constitutional provision that “all laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation.” The authorities in states having the same provision are all to the effect that unless the law clearly has a uniform operation it cannot be considered as a law of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Corliss, C. J.
The plaintiffs, as taxpayers of Traill county, in this state, instituted this action against the members of the board of county commissioners and the other officers of that *272county to secure an injunction perpetually restraining them, their successors in office, clerks, deputies, agents, and servants, from removing, or attempting to remove, the books, papers, records, etc., belonging at the county seat of such county from such county seat at Caledonia to the city of' Hillsboro, in said county, and from locating or establishing, or…
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