Commissioners of Custer County v. Commissioners of Yellowstone County

The legislative assembly of the territory of Montana, by an act approved February 26, 1883, erected certain portions of what had formerly formed a part of Custer county, and a small portion of Gallatin county, into a new county, to be called the county of Yellowstone, the respondent in this case. It was provided in the act that it should take effect from and after its passage. Section 1 contained this provision: “All laws of a general nature applicable to the several counties of this territory, and the officers thereof, are hereby made applicable to the county of Yellowstone, and the officers…