State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. District Court

April 21, 1937, the State Highway Commission of the State of Montana called for the submission of bids to construct Federal Aid Project Number 267-A, consisting of approximately eight miles of the trunk highway known as Route No. 24 running from the city of Glendive to Bonner, near the city of Missoula. The eight miles of such highway that give rise to this controversy are a part of Route 24 between the town of Augusta and the village of Lincoln, in Lewis and Clark county. May 5, 1937, the Chamber of Commerce of Helena, Montana, and Shirley C. Ashby, a taxpayer of Lewis and Clark county,…