Salt Lake Herald | 1900-08-21 | Page 7 | Blanton Loses His Case

BLANTON LOS LOSES H HIS CAE CASE University rit Suit to P Pre Prevent vent Reova Removal Dismissed Special Correspondence Lewiston Ida Aug Steele has the or of J P Blanton a against al st the university re regents ent to restrain them from removing hm him as president nt The complaint cited that he hewa waS wa Ider under contra contract and ha had been rp move moved without notice or an a aton ton tion into any of te the chares charges a as to hi his capacity for the position The The decisIon holds that the regents were ere charged under the enabling act Wih with the dutes duties of e employing mp and ales cOS cOSing ing whenever in their judgment the interest interests of th tim university required that thIs discretion could not be con contracted aa away ad and tt that i it wa was not necessary to hold an examination or orto to p prove ove what the inte interests of the uni university requIre required but only that that In the judgment of th the regent regents removal was required Therefore Judge Steele summoned up te the contraCt sOUght to be enforced to be be in effect a as follows R Resolved That Joseph oseph H Blaton Blanton i is hereby employed as s president of te the Idaho state for three vanes commencing Sept Sept I 1 and endIng Sept Sept 1 1901 at f salary ot of per annum but the board of r regents gent may may remove remove said said at any time in saId period if in hi the interest of te the university it is required that such re removal moval take place lace