Lodge Grass High School District No. 2 v. Hamilton

This is an appeal from the Thirteenth Judicial District Comet, Big Horn County. Lodge Grass High School District No. 2 (Lodge Grass) appeals that court’s order distributing coal tax revenues from mines within the Decker Elementary School District (Decker District) to Big Horn County High School District No. 1 (Hardin). We affirm.

On June 15, 1992, Lodge Grass sought declaratory relief by requesting judicial interpretation of § 15-23-703(4), MCA(1991). Lodge Grass alleged that the Big Horn County treasurer was improperly distributing Decker District’s gross proceeds coal tax revenue to Hardin…