Hessick v. Moynihan

Moynihan, et ah, defendants in error, as members of the Colorado board of corrections, brought a friendly action in the district court against plaintiffs in error, Hessick, as district attorney in and for the eleventh judicial district, and General Boatright, as attorney general of the state of Colorado. It concerns a matter in which all of the parties have a vital interest in their official capacities. It was brought under the declaratory judgment act (L. 1923, p. 268). The plaintiffs prayed that a declaratory judgment be entered, construing an act of the 1927 General Assembly (L. 1927, ch.…