Porter v. Hartley
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Lewis and Clark County in the First Judicial District; C. D. Borton, Judge for the Seventeenth District, presiding. Action of interpleader by George P. Porter, as State Auditor, against James Hartley and another, copartners doing business under the firm name and style of James Hartley & Co., and others, wherein the State, for the use and benefit of the Industrial Accident Fund, intervened.
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Appeal from District Court, Lewis and Clark County in the First Judicial District; C. D. Borton, Judge for the Seventeenth District, presiding. Action of interpleader by George P. Porter, as State Auditor, against James Hartley and another, copartners doing business under the firm name and style of James Hartley & Co., and others, wherein the State, for the use and benefit of the Industrial Accident Fund, intervened. From the judgment rendered, defendant Banking Corporation of Montana appeals. The fiscal agents of the state of Montana are the state treasurer and the state auditor. Inasmuch as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cooper
This action was instituted by George P. Porter, as state auditor, to have determined the respective rights of the several claimants to a balance due from the state to James Hartley & Co. for work done and materials furnished in the construction of what is known as the Metallurgical Building, at the State School of Mines, in Butte. Upon completion of the work in September, 1920, there was due the contractors, as James Hartley & Co. will hereinafter be called, a balance of $10,611.20. Against this amount there were brought into the case by .interpleadings four groups of claims which counsel for…
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