Smith v. County of Nobles
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The plaintiff brought this action' in the district court for Nobles county, to recover the bounty provided for in Laws 1871, c. 30, for the planting and growing of trees. The action was tried by Perkins, J., without a jury, and judgment directed for defendant, from which the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.
In 1871 the legislature passed an act (chapter 30) entitled “An act to encourage the planting and growing of timber and shade-trees.” In 1873 it passed another act (chapter 19) with precisely the same title. (Gen. St. 1878, c. 124, §§ 70-72.) Each act provided for paying a bounty for the planting and growing of trees. The second act was almost a transcript of the other, — so nearly so as to suggest that it was drawn from the other. The only difference in the substance of the two acts (and the differences in phraseology were only such as the differences in substance required) was that by the…
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