State Supreme Court upholds Bad Rock fire hall ruling

The Montana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Bad Rock Fire Department in a lawsuit whereby a rural Columbia Falls attorney claimed she owned the property the department’s south hall sits on.

Attorney Mickale Carter and her husband, Eugene Kirschbaum, sued the fire district in July 2020, claiming her mother, Thelma Carter, didn’t get the proper legal permissions from all the heirs to the Carter estate when Thelma donated 1...