Garrity v. State Board of Administration of Educational Institutions

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The action was one, in the language of the learned judge of the district court, “to recover the value of an eighteen-million-year-old lizard.” The petition made the state board of administration of educational institutions the sole de*696fendant, and was filed June 9, 1914. On November 2, 1914, plaintiff added as defendants E. W. Hoch, Ed T. Hackney, and Mrs. Cora Lewis, members of the state board of administration, and Frank Strong and Rodney A. Elward, trustees of the board of regents of the state university. A demurrer to the petition' was…