Wolf v. Great Falls Water Power & Townsite Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from Eighth Judicial District, Cascade County. ActioN for the specific performance of a contract. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff below by Benton, J. Statement of the facts prepared by the J ustice delivering the opinion: On the twenty-second day of January, 1887, the plaintiff and James J. Hill and Conrad Gotzian, and their wives, entered into the following agreement: “ Auticles of Agreement made this 22nd day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand…
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Appeal from Eighth Judicial District, Cascade County. ActioN for the specific performance of a contract. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff below by Benton, J. Statement of the facts prepared by the J ustice delivering the opinion: On the twenty-second day of January, 1887, the plaintiff and James J. Hill and Conrad Gotzian, and their wives, entered into the following agreement: “ Auticles of Agreement made this 22nd day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, between James J. Hill and Mary T. Hill, his wife, Conrad Gotzian and Caroline Gotzian,…
1Opinion of the CourtPembertoN, C. J.
— Upon the filing of the record of the case in this court the respondent moved this court to dismiss the appeal, upon the grounds that it appears that the judgment of the court was not entered in the proper book. It appears that the clerk of the lower court kept a book labeled “Judgment by the Court,” kept for the sole purpose of entering judgments by the court, and that the judgment in this case was not entered in this book, but it was entered in the “ Minute Book” of the court. It also appears from the record of the case that the court, on the seventeenth day of October, 1891, made and…
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