High court closes oral arguments on water-bottler case

Running afoul with at least one Montana Supreme Court justice, an attorney representing the hotly contested water-bottling plant near Creston charged Wednesday that an “all out war” ensued soon after her clients first incorporated the company.

Moreover, Billings attorney Vicki Marquis, representing Montana Artesian Water Company in a slurry of appeals and cross-appeals heard Wednesday morning, added that the clash – and a later expansion of the Egan Slough Zoning District – was spearheaded with the sole intent to shutter the bottling operation...