Columbia Knickerbocker Trust Co. v. Finney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The plaintiff in each of these cases has filed an application for the allowance of damages, including the fees and expenses of attorneys. In July, 1913, when the cases were commenced, there was a hearing before the court upon an application for the allowance of an alternative writ of mandamus to compel the defendant officers of the city of Atchison to levy a tax for the payment of defaulted bonds issued by the city. The plaintiffs owned $55,000 of the bonds; the defendant officers had recognized the validity of the bonds but had failed and…