Hyde v. Board of Com'rs

Riner, Justice.

This is a proceeding by direct appeal to obtain the review of a judgment of the District Court of Converse County. For convenience, the plaintiff and appellant, A. E. Hyde, will be referred to generally as the “plaintiff” or by his own name, and the defendant and respondent, The Board of the County Commissioners of the County of Converse, as simply the “Board” or the “County Board.”

The facts out of which this litigation arose are not in dispute and are substantially these:

By an act of the Legislature approved Feb. 11, 1915 (ch. 25, Laws Wyo. 1915), the State of Wyoming…