Young v. City of Mankato
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Blue Earth county to recover $330.52 for services rendered by plaintiffs in drafting a charter for defendant city at the request of a charter commission of which they were members. The case was tried before Eorin Cray, J., who granted a motion to dismiss the action upon the close of plaintiffs’ testimony. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
This appeal involves one question: Can a board of freeholders, appointed to draft a charter for a municipality, employ one or more of its members as attorneys for the board, to furnish such board legal advice and to prepare, write, compile, and draft a charter for such board?
Chapter 280, p. 507, Laws 1897, proposed an amendment to the constitution empowering the legislature to frame laws enabling municipal corporations to adopt charters prepared by boards of freeholders appointed by the district judge of the judicial district in which the given municipality may be located. There was no…
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