Hoffman v. Board of County Commissioners
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from Ninth Judicial District, Gallatin County. AotioN by tax payers to enjoin the county commissioners, clerk and treasurer, from issuing bonds. Decree was entered for the plaintiffs below by W. S. Hartman, Esq., special judge. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion.
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Appeal from Ninth Judicial District, Gallatin County. AotioN by tax payers to enjoin the county commissioners, clerk and treasurer, from issuing bonds. Decree was entered for the plaintiffs below by W. S. Hartman, Esq., special judge. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion. The complaint, after alleging that the plaintiffs are taxpayers of Gallatin county, avers that three of the defendants are members of the board of commissioners of Gallatin county, that the defendant Yaill was and is county clerk, and that defendant Chrisman was and is county treasurer. It is then…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
The substance of the plaintiffs’ complaint is that the board of county commissioners of Gallatin county pretended to borrow §30,000 from the Commercial Exchange Bank of Bozeman, and issued warrants therefor in order to create what appeared to be a warrant indebtedness of Gallatin county to said bank. The amount of this apparent debt, when added to the amount of legal outstanding warrants aggregated over §45,000. To create this apparent additional debt of §30,000, the board of county commissioners pretended to borrow the money in several amounts, — two of §10,000 each, one of §7,500, and one…
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- Power v. GumMontana Supreme Court · 1886
- State ex rel. Northwestern National Bank v. DickermanMontana Supreme Court · 1895
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