Legal Opinion
State v. Rathbone
Montana Supreme Court
Decided March 5, 1940No. 8,011PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HONORABLE RUDOLPH NELSTEAD, District Judge,
sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE MORRIS, disqualified, delivered the opinion of the court.
On March 3, 1939, a day during the closed season for killing elk, defendant C. R. Rathbone killed a wild elk on the ranch of which he was the owner and operator known as the Circle H near Augusta in Lewis and Clark county. Immediately after the killing, defendant sent a telegram to the state game warden at the office of the Fish and Game Commission at Helena which read: “We are killing elk on our ranch stop advise quickly disposition of carcasses.” The following…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- State ex rel. Stuewe v. HindsonMontana Supreme Court · 1912
- Mills v. StewartMontana Supreme Court · 1926
- State ex rel. Robert Mitchell Furniture Co. v. TooleMontana Supreme Court · 1901
- State v. HanlonMontana Supreme Court · 1909
- State v. FelkerMontana Supreme Court · 1903
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Baldwin v. Fish and Game Comm'n of Mont.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Richard P. Christy Thomas B. Guthrie Ira Perkins v. Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior United States Department of InteriorCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- Collopy v. Wildlife Commission, Department of Natural ResourcesSupreme Court of Colorado · 1981
- State v. HerwigWisconsin Supreme Court · 1962
- State Ex Rel. Nepstad v. DanielsonMontana Supreme Court · 1967
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