Torrey v. Baldwin
Wyoming Supreme Court
Reserved case from district court, Fremont county. The plaintiff, Robert A. Torrey, brought suit on the 3d day of February, 1890, .in the district court of the third jndicial district of the territory oi Wyoming for Fremont county against the defendant M. N. Baldwin, as county treasurer and ex officio collector of taxes for Fremont county.
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Reserved case from district court, Fremont county. The plaintiff, Robert A. Torrey, brought suit on the 3d day of February, 1890, .in the district court of the third jndicial district of the territory oi Wyoming for Fremont county against the defendant M. N. Baldwin, as county treasurer and ex officio collector of taxes for Fremont county. The plaintiff seeks to have certain taxes in the sum of $1,262.62 levied and assessed against him on his livestock, horses, and cattle ranging on the Shoshone Indian reservation within the geographical limits of the county of Fremont, declared void, and to…
1Opinion of the Court
Groesbeck, C. J.,
{after stating' the facts as above.) The questions involved in this proceeding were directly passed upon by the supreme court of the late territory of Wyoming when the said Shoshone Indian reservation was a part of Sweetwater county, and before the formation of the county of Fremont from a part of its territory, in the case of Moore v. Board, etc., 2 Wyo‘ 8, and tliebroad statement was then judicially announced that the territory of Wyoming was wholly excluded from the exercise of political power over this reservation, either to regulate the intercourse of its subjects with…
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