In re the Authority to Conduct Savings & Loan Activities ex rel. Gate City Savings & Loan Ass'n

Gate City Savings and Loan Association of Fargo, North Dakota *363(“Gate City”) and Fidelity Savings and Loan Association of Great Falls, Montana (“Fidelity”) appeal from judgment of the Lewis and Clark County District Court in a proceeding for judicial review of an administrative hearing before the Department of Business Regulation (“Department”). The District Court reversed the Department’s approval of a proposed merger between Gate City and Fidelity because the statute governing merger of building and loan associations, section 7-113.2, R.C.M.1947, now section 32-2-231 MCA, (formerly section…