Hall v. County of Ramsey
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiff appeals from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, Brill, J., presiding, sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.
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Plaintiff appeals from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, Brill, J., presiding, sustaining a demurrer to the complaint. The complaint alleges that plaintiff is the publisher of a daily newspaper in Ramsey county, known as “The Daily Globe,” and had entered into a contract with defendant for the publication of the delinquent tax list for that county, but that defendant has refused to give him the list for publication, or to allow him to publish it, and asks damages accordingly. The complaint sets out in detail, as recited in the opinion, the proceedings by which the alleged…
1Opinion of the Court
Mitchell, J.*
This w7as an action for damages for the breach of an alleged contract betw7een the parties for the publication, by plaintiff, of the list of delinquent taxes upon real estate for the year 1880. The important question here is whether the complaint states a cause of action. Gen. St. 1878, c. 11, § 72, provides that the newspaper in which this list shall be published “shall be designated by resolution of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the taxes are levied, at their annual meeting in January, or at the meeting of said board in March, a copy of which…
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