Williams v. Board of Commissioners
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Broadwater County; F. K. Armstrong, Judge. E. A. Caeleton presented a claim to tbe board of county commissioners of Broadwater county. From tbe action óf tbe board in allowing part of tbe claim, David T. Williams and other taxpayers appealed to the district court, which rendered judgment against appellants; from which judgment, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, they appeal. Reversed.
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Appeal from District Court, Broadwater County; F. K. Armstrong, Judge. E. A. Caeleton presented a claim to tbe board of county commissioners of Broadwater county. From tbe action óf tbe board in allowing part of tbe claim, David T. Williams and other taxpayers appealed to the district court, which rendered judgment against appellants; from which judgment, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, they appeal. Reversed. The board of county commissioners must cause to be kept in suitable books a record of all their official acts. (Sec. 4219, Political Cbde.) To prove these official…
1Opinion of the Court
MR. COMMISSIONER CALLAWAY
prepared tbe opinion for tbe court.
It appears from tbe record that tbe board of-county commissioners of Broadwater county, at a special meeting held in *364January, 1899, employed George Lambert and another to index tbe records of their county, and ordered the county clerk to give Lambert and associate access to his office and to the records therein. This the county clerk, upon the advice of the county attorney, refused to do. After the adjournment of the board Dumen, its chairman, met Lambert upon the street, and directed him to employ counsel for the purpose of bringing…
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