Comstock Mill & Mining Co. v. Allen
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Ormsby county. Richard Rising, District Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion. I. The Ormsby county fee bill of 1887 is special legislation, being made for one county alone when a general fee bill was in force, and is in direct contravention of section 20 of article TV) of the constitution, as that section stood when the act was passed.
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Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Ormsby county. Richard Rising, District Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion. I. The Ormsby county fee bill of 1887 is special legislation, being made for one county alone when a general fee bill was in force, and is in direct contravention of section 20 of article TV) of the constitution, as that section stood when the act was passed. (State v. Boyd, 19 Nev. 43; State v. California M. Co., 15 Nev. 234; Evans v. Job, 8 Nev. 322.) II. The court below erred in allowing as costs a charge of one dollar and twenty-five cents for the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Bigelow, J.:
This action was brought under the statute of 1889, p. 107, to •determine the priority of rights to the use of the water of the Carson river. A motion by some of the defendants to set aside the notice of the action was sustained by the court, whereupon the petitioner moved to dismiss the cause; this motion was granted, and judgment entered for the defendants for costs of suit, amounting to two hundred dollars and twenty-five cents. A motion by the petitioner to retax the costs was partly overruled, and from this order the appeal is taken.
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