Rathbone v. State Board of Land Commrs.

"The grant of lands for school purposes by the federal government to this state constitutes a trust (State ex rel.Bickford v. Cook, 17 Mont. 529, 43 P. 928; State ex rel.Dildine v. Collins, 21 Mont. 448, 53 P. 1114; State ex rel.Koch v. Barrett, 26 Mont. 62, 66 P. 504); and the State Board of Land Commissioners, as the instrumentality created to administer that trust, is bound, upon principles that are elementary, to so administer it as to secure the largest measure of legitimate advantage to the beneficiary of it." The constitutional provisions referring to the grant of lands for school…