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MR. JUSTICE GALEN delivered the opinion of the court. The defendant was charged, by information filed in the district court of Beaverhead county, with the crime of un lawfully possessing whisky. Upon her plea of not guilty the case was regularly tried to a jury, which by its verdict found her guilty as charged, leaving...
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PER CURIAM. Relator’s application for writ of review herein is denied.
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PER CURIAM. Relator’s application for a writ of review herein is denied.
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JUSTICE WEBER delivered the Opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from an Order issued by the First Judicial District Court, Lewis and Clark County amending a previous judgment issued by the court following a jury trial. We affirm. We consider the following issues on appeal: 1. Did the District Court err as a matter ...
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JUSTICE HARRISON delivered the Opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from the Seventh Judicial District, Dawson County, the Honorable Dale Cox presiding. Appellant Craig Lueck (Lueck) appeals from an order granting summary judgment in favor of respondent United Parcel Service (UPS) and dismissing his retaliatory disc...
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JUSTICE REGNIER delivered the Opinion of the Court. ¶ 1 David Thurston (Thurston) was charged with two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and one count of sexual assault. Thurston pleaded guilty to the two counts of sexual intercourse without consent as part of a plea agreement. The District Court sentenced T...
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JUSTICE REGNIER delivered the Opinion of the Court. ¶1 Plaintiff, Lori Blain, as personal representative of the estate of Gary Everhard, filed a Complaint and Jury Demand asserting wrongful death, personal injury and survival action in the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Yellowstone County. Defendants, Stillwater M...
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MR. JUSTICE SMITH delivered the opinion of the court. This suit was brought to obtain a decree declaring a resolution of the council of the defendant city of Poison, creating a special-improvement district, null and void, and to enjoin the defendants from entering into a contract or accepting any bid for the constructi...
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MR. JUSTICE' GALEN delivered the opinion of the court. On motion for a rehearing it has been thought best to make some changes in the original opinion so as to remove doubt as to the proper practice to be pursued in such cases as this. Therefore, the original opinion is withdrawn, this one substituted, and the responde...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HASWELL, delivered the opinion of the court. Defendant Howard L. Bashor appeals from his conviction by a jury in Toole County of the crime of deliberate homicide. This case arose out of the death of James Hurley. It is undisputed that Hurley died of a gunshot wound and that defendant fired the fatal s...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HASWELL, delivered the opinion of the court. Appellant Szczepan Korol sought the return of his son to his custody through a petition for habeas corpus. The Cascade County District Court denied his petition and he appeals. Szczepan and Gwen Korol, the natural parents, obtained a divorce in Cascade Coun...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HASWELL, delivered the opinion of the Court. Gerald Krum appeals from the property settlement provisions of a divorce decree entered in the Yellowstone County District Court. Gerald and Linda Krum were married in 1964. They were separated briefly in 1976 and were permanently separated in December, 197...
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MR. JUSTICE SHEEHY, delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellants, Irvin G. and Charlotte A. Riis, commenced action in the District Court, First Judicial District, Broadwater County, for damages for breach of a renewal provision in a lease. The appellants appeal the District Court’s order granting summary judgment to ...
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MR. JUSTICE DALY delivered the opinion of the Court. Defendant Robert A. Kamrud appeals from his conviction, following a jury trial, of the offense of criminal sale of dangerous drugs. On March 9, 1979, John Nelson and Gary Gill were employed as undercover deputy sheriffs of Wheatland County to investigate possible dru...
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MR. JUSTICE HARRISON, delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from an action brought in Missoula County District Court for the recovery of certain monies allegedly owed to North Dakota State University on a contract for the promotion of a rock concert. Summary judgment was'entered in favor of respondent S...
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MR. JUSTICE DALY, delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents a regrettable state of affairs wherin the parties to a divorce are still disputing the distribution of marital property ordered by the District Court in its 1975 decree of dissolution and affirmed by this Court. Zell v. Zell (1977), 174 Mont. 216,...
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MR. JUSTICE HARRISON, delivered the opinion of the court. The State initiated this action on November 15, 1979, by filing a petition in Youth Court, Yellowstone County, alleging R.P.S. was a delinquent by having committed the crimes of deliberate homicide and sexual intercourse without consent. On November 26, 1979, co...
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MR. JUSTICE HARRISON delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an appeal arising out of defendant’s conviction of the crimes of attempted deliberate homicide and aggravated burglary in the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District, in and for the County of Yellowstone, the Honorable Charles Luedke presiding....
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MR. JUSTICE SHEEHY, delivered the opinion of the court. This is a quiet title action brought in the District Court, Eleventh Judicial District, Flathead County, by Charlotte Taylor Price against Rudolph L. Zunchich and Raymond E. Bauer. Trial was held in District Court without a jury, and judgment was rendered against ...
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MR. JUSTICE DALY delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an appeal by the employer, H. C. Smith Construction Co., and compensation carrier, Argonaut Insurance Co., from the findings of fact, conclusions of law, and judgment of the Montana Workers’ Compensation Court, the Honorable William E. Hunt presiding, entered...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HASWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This action was commenced in the Cascade County District Court by plaintiff-respondent Mary Toeckes. She sought actual and punitive damages for an alleged malicious removal of a gate and approach to state property which she holds as a cotenant with her siste...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HASWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Continental Insurance Company appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Court denying the Insurance Company’s motion for an evidentiary hearing prior to a judicial determination of an award of attorney fees and costs. Richard B. Horton (claimant) wa...
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JUSTICE NELSON delivered the Opinion of the Court. ¶1 The Appellant, Gary Lee Hall, was charged with a fourth offense of driving under the influence of alcohol pursuant to § 61-8-401, MCA, and for driving with a suspended license, pursuant to § 61-5-212, MCA, in the District Court for the Twenty First Judicial District...
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JUSTICE RICE delivered the Opinion of the Court. ¶1 Thomas and Susan Benson (collectively, Bensons) brought this action against Diverse Computer Corporation, a/k/a Pronto Progress Software Development (hereinafter, Diverse Corp.), in the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Yellowstone County, alleging the corporation h...
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MR. JUSTICE HARRISON delivered the opinion of the court. This appeal arises out of a proceeding for a dissolution of marriage and the equitable apportionment of assets of a marital estate filed in the District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District, the Honorable W.W. Lessle...
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MR. JUSTICE SMITH delivered the opinion of the court. The complaint in this action alleges that at all times mentioned the defendant was an Illinois corporation, doing business in the county of Silver Bow and state of Montana; “that on the first day of January, 1904, and upon each succeeding day subsequent thereto, in ...
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MR. JUSTICE STARK delivered the opinion of the court. The American Bank & Trust Company of Great Falls, Montana, at the times herein mentioned, was, and still is, a banking corporation, organized under the laws of this state. On December 3, 1921, this 'bank, being insolvent, closed its doors to business, and on January...
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JUSTICE GRAY delivered the Opinion of the Court. L. Michael Beasley appeals an order of the Eleventh Judicial District Court, Flathead County, granting summary judgment in favor of Semitool, Inc., Semitherm, Inc. and Raymon Thompson on his claim for wrongful discharge, breach of express and implied contract, and breach...
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JUSTICE WEBER delivered the Opinion of the Court. This is an appeal of an order of the Youth Court in the Fourth Judicial District, Missoula County, ordering the youth’s placement at Pine Hills School for Boys until he reaches the age of eighteen years. We reverse. The sole issue for our review is whether the Youth Cou...
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JUSTICE TRIEWEILER delivered the Opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from an order of the Fifth Judicial District Court, State of Montana, terminating a mother’s parental rights to her four children and awarding permanent legal custody to the Department of Family Services. The mother asserts on appeal that the Dist...
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JUSTICE HARRISON delivered the Opinion of the Court. Candis DeChaine, formerly Candis Fesolowitz (Candy), appeals from an order modifying child custody, visitation, and support entered by the Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Gallatin County, the Honorable Larry W. Moran presiding. We affirm. Candy and her former hus...
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JUSTICE HUNT delivered the Opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from the Ninth Judicial District Court, Toole County, Montana. The appellant mother appeals the District Court’s award of joint custody with the respondent father in which respondent was designated primary residential custodian of the minor child, C.J.K...
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JUSTICE GRAY delivered the Opinion of the Court. Appellant Joe Silva (Silva) appeals from an order of the Eleventh Judicial District Court, Flathead County, granting summary judgment to the City of Columbia Falls, Montana (the City). We affirm. On January 15, 1989, Silva, a Columbia Falls police officer, suffered an in...
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JUSTICE GRAY delivered the Opinion of the Court. Appellant Lisa Keele appeals from an order of the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Yellowstone County, dismissing her claim for loss of parental consortium. We reverse and remand. The sole issue on appeal is whether a minor child’s cause of action for loss of parental...
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CHIEF JUSTICE TURNAGE delivered the Opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from an administrative action. The District Court for the First Judicial District, Lewis and Clark County, reversed the findings, conclusions, and order entered by the Board of Nursing and ordered that the recommended findings, conclusions, and...
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JUSTICE NELSON delivered the Opinion of the Court. ¶1 The Stanley L. and Carolyn M. Watkins Trust, and Steven B. Williamson, individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stanley L. Watkins, deceased (collectively, “Appellants”), brought a legal malpractice action in the District Court for the Eleventh J...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BRANTLY delivered the opinion of the court. The only question presented in this ease is whether the treasurer of Lewis and Clark county could lawfully collect from the plaintiff, for the year 1911, the tax heretofore imposed upon insurance companies under the provisions of section 4073, Re vised Codes...
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MR. JUSTICE HOLLOWAY delivered the opinion of the court. This action was brought to recover a tax paid under protest. A general demurrer to the complaint was sustained, judgment rendered and entered for defendant, and plaintiff appealed. The complaint alleges that the only solvent credits owned by W. B. Dolenty at 12 o...
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JUSTICE GRAY delivered the Opinion of the Court. John J. Mann and Mann Farms, Inc. appeal from orders of the Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Roosevelt County, granting summary judgment and dismissing third-party claims. They also appeal an order of the District Court denying a motion to dissolve an injunction. John ...
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JUSTICE WEBER delivered the Opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from the Twelfth Judicial District Court, Hill County, continuing a 1974 award of $250 per month for permanent maintenance to the ex-wife. We affirm. We consider the following issues on appeal: 1. Did the District Court err in determining that Mr. Burr...
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PER CURIAM.- It is ordered that the appeal in the above-entitled cause be, and the same is hereby, dismissed, in accordance with motion of appellant on file herein.
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MR. JUSTICE SMITH delivered the opinion of tbe court. On the fourteenth day of July, 1910, the district court of Yellowstone county, Hon. Sydney Sanner, judge presiding, on petition of the state of Montana, a creditor in the sum of $25,000, appointed Samuel G. Reynolds as receiver of the First Trust & Savings Bank of B...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BRANTUY delivered the opinion of the court. This action was brought to quiet title in plaintiffs to the use of the water flowing in Staubaeh creek in Broadwater county. They claim by separate rights. Plaintiff Kenck alleges an appropriation and diversion of 340 inches by predecessors in interest, in t...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BRANTLT delivered the opinion of the court. The defendants, charged jointly with grand larceny, were convicted and sentenced to terms in the state prison at hard labor — Matkins to a term of four years, and Gatliff to a term of five years. They moved for a new trial, on the ground, among others, of ne...
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MR. JUSTICE HOLBOWAY delivered the opinion of the court. The defendant was charged with committing an assault in the first degree upon one J. Roy Huntington by means of a rifle, described as a deadly weapon. At the close of the case for the prosecution, the trial court directed a verdict of not guilty, and the state ha...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BRANTLY delivered the opinion of the court. The defendant was charged with the crime of assault in the second degree. The information is formally entitled in the proper court, and reads as follow: “The State of Montana, Plaintiff, v. G. W. Barry, Defendant. In the district court of the Thirteenth judi...
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MR. JUSTICE STARK delivered the opinion of the court. The above actions arose out of a collision between a Nash truck and a locomotive engine hauling a west-bound freight train of the defendant company, which occurred at what is known as the Main Street crossing in Baker, Montana. The truck in question belonged to the ...
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MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS delivered the opinion of the court. The defendant, John A. Smith, has appealed from the judgment pronounced on his conviction of the crime of giving intoxicating liquor to minors. The evidence adduced on the trial, briefly stated, is as follows: One Percey Williams testified that on the morning of ...
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MR. JUSTICE SMITH delivered the opinion óf tbe court. This is a suit in equity, the purpose of which is, in effect, to set aside a sale of 40,983 1/3 shares of the capital stock of the Smith Bros. Sheep Company, made by Napoleon B. Smith, as executor of the last will and testament of William A. Smith, deceased, to John...
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MR. JUSTICE HOLLOWAY delivered tbe opinion of tbe court. On May 20, 1909, this plaintiff was the duly qualified and acting chief of police of tbe city of Butte, appointed to such office under tbe Metropolitan Police Law (Laws 1907, p. 344). In disregard of tbe provisions of that statute, tbe mayor assumed to appoint, a...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BRANTLY delivered the opinion of the court. Appeal from an order directing the issuance of an injunction pendente lite. The action was brought to quiet title in the plaintiff to the use of fifty inches of the water flowing in Beaver creek, in Broadwater county. The complaint alleges an appropriation b...
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PER CURIAM. Respondents’ motion to dismiss tbe appeal herein, this day submitted, is after due consideration by tbe court granted, and tbe appeal is accordingly dismissed at tbe cost of tbe appellant. (Motion to reinstate denied June 18, 1912.)
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BRANTLY delivered the opinion of the court. On August 19, 1911, J. H. Miewald filed with the defendant, a justice of the peace in Chinook township, Chouteau county, an affidavit asking for the issuance of a search-warrant, a copy of which follows: “State of Montana, County of Chouteau, “ J. H. Miewald...
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JUSTICE WEBER delivered the Opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from the Worker’s Compensation Court of a judgment concluding that the claimant, David Dale, was injured during the course and scope of his employment. We reverse. There are three issues on appeal: 1. Did the Worker’s Compensation Court err in determin...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HASWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Farmers State Bank brought this action to collect on a promissory note executed by Imperial Cattle Company (Company). In addition, the Bank asserted a claim against James and Phillis Edmiston for conversion of property in which the Bank held a security inter...
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MR. JUSTICE SHEEHY delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from an order entered in Choteau County District Court denying Robert G. Winters’ petition for modification of a divorce decree. Loretta M. Winters and Robert G. Winters were married on June 2, 1956 in Columbus, Montana. Four children were born th...
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MR. JUSTICE DALY delivered the opinion of the Court. The District Court’s order suppressing the evidence on the basis of State v. Jetty (1978), 176 Mont. 519, 579 P.2d 1228, 35 St.Rep. 739, is affirmed. MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HASWELL and JUSTICES HARRISON, SHEA and SHEEHY concur.
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HASWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. In an action by the sellers of a farm to recover a real estate commission and treble damages, the District Court granted summary judgment in favor of the real estate broker and dismissed the broker’s counterclaim for malicious prosecution. Both parties appea...
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MR. JUSTICE SHEA delivered the opinion of the Court. Missoula General Hospital (herein referred to as Hospital) appeals from an order of the Lewis and Clark County District Court denying its motion for change of venue. The sole issue presented is whether the trial court properly denied the motion for change of venue fr...
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MR. JUSTICE HARRISON delivered the opinion of the court. Respondent Ed Skillman petitioned the District Court for judicial review of a decision by the State Board of Land Commissioners to renew a lease of state land to James R. Foster. The Board of Land Commissioners had renewed the lease after finding that Foster had ...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HASWELL, delivered the-opinion of the Court. Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment on jury verdict and the denial of a motion for a new trial. This action arose out of an April 14, 1975, traffic acc...
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PER CURIAM. Respondent’s motion to dismiss the appeal herein is sustained and the appeal is dismissed.
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PER CURIAM. On motion of counsel for respondent, the appeal herein is dismissed, the appellants having failed to file and serve their brief within the time allowed by the rules of this court.
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JUSTICE HUNT delivered the Opinion of the Court. Petitioner Rebecca Gray Wackier appeals the decision of the Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County, modifying visitation, capping child support at $39,500, and failing to award her attorney fees. We affirm. Petitioner raises three issue for this appeal. 1. Did t...
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OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING SUPERVISORY CONTROL MR. JUSTICE SHEEHY delivered the opinion of the Court. Relator, Great Western Sugar Company, filed its application with this Court, praying that we issue a writ of supervisory control or other appropriate writ to the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District, in a...
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OPINION AND ORDER PER CURIAM: Original application by Walter Schantle for a writ of habeas corpus directed against the warden of the Montana State Prison, Roger Crist. Schantle had previously sought a writ of habeas corpus from the United States District Court for the District of Montana, Billings Division, but writ wa...
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MR. JUSTICE SHEA delivered the opinion of the Court. Plaintiffs appeal the orders of the Flathead County District Court setting aside the entry of default against the defendant County and granting summary judgment to the County. Plaintiffs contend that the default should not have been set because the County had no just...
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JUSTICE HARRISON, delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an appeal by the Department of Revenue from a decision of the District Court of the Eighth Judicial District, in and for Cascade County, affirming a decision of the State Tax Appeal Board providing for a blanket 34 percent reduction in the Department’s appra...
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MR. JUSTICE DALY delivered the opinion of the Court. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered in the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, the Honorable Frank E. Blair, presiding, in favor of defendant First National Bank of Dillon (Bank), in an action by plaintiff to recover on a check allegedly improperly n...
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MR. JUSTICE DALY delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant appeals from an order denying his petition to modify support payments. The order was entered by the District Court, Eleventh Judicial District, Flathead County. The parties to this action were divorced on December 13, 1971. Under the divorce decree, respond...
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MR. JUSTICE HARRISON, delivered the opinion of the court. This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of the Tenth Judicial District, State of Montana, in and for the County of Fergus, dissolving the marriage, settling custody and child support provisions and dividing the marital property. The appeal princi...
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MR. JUSTICE SHEA delivered the opinion of the court. Defendant Mike J. Berek, appeals from an order of the Flathead County District Court denying his motion for a change of venue to Cascade County. The sole issue in this appeal is whether the place of performance in a contract is in Flathead County or Cascade County. W...
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MR. JUSTICE DALY, delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case is whether the District Court, County of Silver Bow, abused its discretion in ordering appellant to pay his former wife $200 per month maintenance pursuant to a decree of dissolution of marriage. The marriage of Robert Wilber Vivian and Elizab...
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MR. JUSTICE HARRISON delivered the opinion of the court. In 1977 respondents in this action filed a criminal complaint with the Musselshell County Attorney, John Pratt. The complaint alleged that appellant herein had deprived them of some money. As a result of the filing of the criminal complaint, Pratt filed a motion ...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HASWELL, delivered the opinion of the Court. Claimant-appellant James E. Shannon sought benefits from the Uninsured Employers’ Fund for injuries received September 24, 1977. Claimant appealed to the Workers’ Compensation Court after relief had been denied by the Division of Workers’ Compensation. The ...
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MR. JUSTICE HARRISON delivered the opinion of the Court. Carrie M. Morrell appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of Robert Lee Giesick. The judgment, entered by the District Court, Sixteenth Judicial District, Rosebud County, precluded Morrell from challenging Giesick’s custody of Morrell’s child, Sandy Joe ...
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JUSTICE NELSON delivered the Opinion of the Court. ¶1 The Estate of Carolyn Watkins (the Estate) brought a legal malpractice action in the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District, Missoula County, to recover damages allegedly sustained as a result of attorney Susan Lacosta’s negligence in drafting a will and tr...
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JUSTICE RICE delivered the Opinion of the Court. ¶1 Matthew Dean Eixenberger (Eixenberger) was charged with two felony counts of burglary in violation of § 45-6-204, MCA, in the Eleventh Judicial District, Flathead County. Eixenberger moved to suppress evidence gained from an investigative stop, but the District Court ...
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MR. JUSTICE HARRISON, delivered the opinion of the Court. In August 1974 petitioner was convicted of robbery on a plea of guilty. In July 1979 petitioner instituted an original proceeding in this Court for post-conviction relief, seeking leave to withdraw his plea of guilty. This Court remanded the matter to the Distri...
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JOSEPH B. GARY, District Judge, sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE DALY, delivered the opinion of the Court. Claimant, who had had trouble with a knee since 1941, injured his knee on two separate occasions in 1978 while working for Structural Systems, Inc. The first injury occurred on April 4, 1978, when the claimant slip...
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MR. JUSTICE SHEEHY delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an action involving the conflicting mining claims of Morton K. Whittaker and the Anaconda Company. Whittaker appeals from a judgment entered in the District Court, Sixth Judicial District, Sweet Grass County, in favor of Anaconda. Under the judgment, Anacon...
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MR. JUSTICE DALY delivered the opinion of the court. This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District, Gallatin County, the Honorable W. W. Lessley presiding. Plaintiffs Hillstrom brought this action for a breach of contract against defendant Villano and for an interference wi...
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MR. JUSTICE SMITH delivered the opinion of the court. Plaintiff seeks to recover damages for loss, alleged to have been sustained by himself and four other persons, his assignors, on account of the negligence -of the defendant in transporting a train-load of cattle for them from Dorsey, Montana, to Chicago, Illinois. A...
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MR. JUSTICE HOLLOWAY delivered the opinion of the court. This action was brought to enforce payment of a promissory note dated December 16, 1905, due on demand, and executed and delivered by defendant and one John Eakins to the plaintiff. Before the action was commenced, Eakins died. The complaint, after alleging the e...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE CALLAWAY delivered the opinion of the court. This action was brought by the plaintiff, Capital Finance Corporation, to recover of the defendant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the cash surrender value of an insurance policy issued by the defendant to Herman Krogman in favor of Krogman’s wife. Th...
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MR. JUSTICE STARK delivered the opinion of the court. From the pleadings and the evidence, all the material facts involved in this case are established without any dispute. These facts are as follows: The plaintiff, a California corporation, sold to the Heisey Company of Great Falls (hereafter called the company) a car...
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MR. JUSTICE STARK delivered the opinion of the court. This is an action, on a $2,500 policy of insurance, issued by the defendant to one J. J. Rogers on January 23, 1922,' covering a frame dwelling-house located on a farm near Ronan in what is now Lake county. The policy contained the following provision: “In considera...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BRANTLY delivered the opinion of the court. Plaintiffs brought this action as copartners doing business in Butte, Montana, under the firm name of Crystal Ice Company. They sought to charge the defendants, husband and wife, as co-partners under the firm name of Oro Fino Ice Company, for a balance of $2...
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MR. JUSTICE HOLLOWAY delivered the opinion of the court. This is an action for damages for a personal injury. The plaintiff recovered judgment against the defendant railway company, and from that judgment and an order denying a new trial the railway company appealed. There are several assignments of error, but only one...
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Mil. JUSTICE SMITH delivered the opinion of the court. On the thirtieth day of November, 1909, the parties hereto entered into a written contract, wherein the plaintiffs leased to the defendant a tract of land in Missoula county for a term of ninety-nine years, at an annual rental of $300. It appears from the lease tha...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BRANTLY delivered the opinion of the court. The evidence discloses the following: The accident occurred on October 11, 1909, near the point where the road crosses Elk creek by a steel or iron bridge. As it approaches the bridge, the road extends along the shore of the stream only a few feet away. It i...
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MR. JUSTICE SMITH delivered the opinion of the court. On the fourteenth day of August, 1911, the county attorney of Silver Bow county filed an information in the district court of that county, against the above-named defendant, charging as follows: “That during thirty days in the calendar year A. D. 1911, and before th...
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MR. JUSTICE HOLLOWAY delivered the opinion of the court. The information herein recites that “Mike Larson is accused by the deputy county attorney of Roosevelt county, Montana, by this information of the crime of burglary,” etc., and it is signed, “Erick Mourn, Deputy County Attorney of Roosevelt County.” Defendant was...
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MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS delivered the opinion of the court. The complaint herein is in the usual form in an action to quiet title in plaintiffs to certain real estate described; it is therein alleged that each of the defendants claims some interest in the property adverse to plaintiffs, but that such claims are “without r...
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ME. JUSTICE STAEK delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiffs, copartners under the name of Hunt & White, brought this action against the defendant, a corporation, to recover the sum of $5,346.15, alleged to be due them for running, pasturing and grazing certain cattle for the defendant on their range in Custer ...
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MR. JUSTICE HOLLOWAY delivered the opinion of the court. The defendant was found guilty of keeping open a dance-hall on Sunday and has appealed from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial. " The cause was submitted upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that from 9 P. M. unt...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE CALLAWAY delivered tbe opinion of tbe court. Upon bis trial before a jury for feloniously making a false report to tbe state examiner, Barton B. Dakin was acquitted by direction of tbe district court of Silver Bow county. Judgment of dismissal followed, from wbieb tbe state appealed. During tbe argume...
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE CALLAWAY delivered tbe opinion of the court. Tbe plaintiff, on June 26, 1925, obtained a judgment by default against tbe defendant for tbe sum of $1,699.85 and costs. Upon tbe application of defendant tbe court, on September 28, 1925, entered an order setting aside tbe default and vacating tbe judgmen...
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MR. JUSTICE STARK delivered the opinion of the court. The Red Lodge-Rosebud Irrigation District is a public corporation, organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of acquiring water rights, and the construction of ditches and canals to be used in connection with the irrigation of the lands situated within ...
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MR. JUSTICE GALEN delivered the opinion of the court. Joseph E. Oppenheimer, a resident of the city of Butte, died therein on January 31, 1924, leaving a large estate, disposition of which was by him provided in a last will and testament. The will was admitted to probate on March 1, 1924, and letters testamentary were ...
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