Doyle v. City of Astoria

This is a motion to vacate warrants of attachment and levies made pursuant thereto, in two actions brought for recovery of interest admittedly due and unpaid on $30,000 five and one-half per cent bonds of the city of Astoria, Ore. The subject of attachment was a deposit of $8,623,-51 in the Chase National Bank of the city of New York to the account of defendant. A foreign municipal corporation under ordinary circumstances will be treated like any other corporation, and the court will take jurisdiction. When a municipality acts in its private or proprietary capacity, its funds are subject to…