173 P. 421 | Mont. | 1918
delivered the opinion of the court.
At a special election held in 1916, a majority of the electors voting authorized the county commissioners to issue bonds in the sum of $75,000 to build and equip an addition to the county high school building. Some time after the election this suit by a taxpayer was instituted to enjoin the issue and sale of the
The cause was tried upon what amounts to an agreed
For the purposes of this appeal we assume that the repeal of section 1318, Political Code of 1895, did not affect the duties imposed upon the county clerk by reference to that section in section 531 above. (Ventura County v. Clay, 112 Cal. 65, 44 Pac. 488.) Did the failure of the clerk to publish the notice avoid the election notwithstanding the electors had actual notice and participated generally in the election? The inquiry is answered in the negative and the question set at rest in this state by the decision in State ex rel. Patterson v. Lentz, 50 Mont. 322, 146 Pac. 932.
The judgment is affirmed.
'Affirmed.