Legal Opinion

Erskine v. Steele County

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of North Dakota

Decided May 28, 1898PublishedCited by 12 opinions

This was an action by the administrators of Massena B. Erskine against Steele county, N. D., to recover on a county warrant.

1Opinion of the Court

AMIDON, District Judge.

This action is submitted to the court without a jury upon an agreed statement of facts, which may be summarized as follows: The defendant, Steele county, was organized on the 23d day of June, 1883, out of territory which had been previously embraced in the counties of Traill and Griggs. Thereafter its board of commissioners employed one E. J. McMahon to transcribe the records in the offices of the registers of deeds of the old counties affecting the title to real property situated in the new. The work was prepared by him pursuant to the contract, and on the 19th day of…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1856
  2. New Orleans v. New Orleans Water Works Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1891
  3. Grenada County Supervisors v. BrogdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  4. New Orleans v. ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  5. Town of Guilford v. . the Supervisors of Chenango CountyNew York Court of Appeals · 1855

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias v. MeyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
  2. Steele County v. ErskineCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1899
  3. McIntosh v. DillSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1922
  4. State ex rel. City of Omaha v. Board of County CommissionersNebraska Supreme Court · 1922
  5. Sorum v. StateNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 2020

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