Perkins v. City of South Bend

This action was brought against the defendant, a city of the third class, to recover the amount of a number of local improvement warrants, on the ground that the city had wrongfully paid warrants of subsequent issue and higher denomination than those held by the plaintiff. It is claimed that, if the subsequent warrants had not been paid, there would have been sufficient in the funds to have taken care of those held by the plaintiff as well as those which had priority over his warrants. The warrants in question were first issued and delivered to contractors who had done street improvement work…