Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 2. VENUE

Part 1. Proper Place of Trial -- Venue

Against Public Officers Or Their Agents

25-2-125. Against public officers or their agents. The proper place of trial for an action against a public officer or person specially appointed to execute the officer's duties for an act done by the officer or person in virtue of the office or against a person who, by the officer's or person's command or in the officer's or person's aid, does anything relating to the duties of the officer is the county where the cause or some part of the cause of action arose.

History: En. Sec. 19, p. 46, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 19, p. 137, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 24, p. 31, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 57, p. 51, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 57, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 57, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 611, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6502, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9094, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 393; re-en. Sec. 9094, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-2902(part); amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 432, L. 1985; sec. 25-2-105, MCA 1983; redes. 25-2-125 by Code Commissioner, 1985; amd. Sec. 381, Ch. 56, L. 2009.