State ex rel. Quinn v. Village Council
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, The Village Council of the Village of Cloquet and George Muggah, Recorder of the Village, from a judgment of the District Court of Carlton County, Ensign, J., entered August 26, 1892, directing a peremptory writ of Mandamus to be issued, commanding the defendants to comply with the provisions of Sp.
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Appeal by defendant, The Village Council of the Village of Cloquet and George Muggah, Recorder of the Village, from a judgment of the District Court of Carlton County, Ensign, J., entered August 26, 1892, directing a peremptory writ of Mandamus to be issued, commanding the defendants to comply with the provisions of Sp. Laws 1891, ch. 265. This Act required the Village Council of Cloquet to publish, or cause to be published, for one week in some weekly newspaper of general' circulation in the village, their proceedings at each general or special session., Albert E. Quinn, on October 24, 1891,…
1Opinion of the CourtGtlfillan, C. J.
Sp. Laws 1891, ch. 265, made it the duty of the village council of the village of Cloquet, Carlton county, to cause its proceedings to be published in some weekly newspaper of general circulation in the village, and to designate an official newspaper for the village. As there was but one paper that came within the description in the act, it is manifest that the act was a legislative “job,” and of a piece with a vast amount of legislation that has been done of late years by which private interest rather than the public good has been subserved, and w'hich kind of legislation the constitutional…
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