Tripp v. Ringsrud

Citations

• 2 S.D. 593
• 51 N.W. 655
• 1892 S.D. LEXIS 23

Syllabus

<p>Sections 413, 414, Comp. Laws, require the librarian of the state to deliver one copy of Dakota Supreme Court Reports to each of certain courts and officers of the state and United States. Section 415 provides that, should the full compliance with the act exhaust the supply of the volumes therein specified, “the secretary is hereby authorized and directed to purchase a sufficient number of copies of the same heretofore published, or to be published, to comply with .the provisions of this act.” HellZ, that the act has a prospective as well as present operation, and applies to future volumes of the Reports to be issued, as well as those on hand, and that the object of Section 415, Comp. Laws, was to provide for a contingency; that is, should the supply on hand be ex- . hausted before the persons and courts named had been supplied, they could be provided with them.</p> <p>•(Syllabus by the Court.</p>