Carman v. Woodruff

By the Court,

Watson, J.:

This suit was brought by respondents as tax-payers of Curry county, Oregon, on behalf of the whole body of taxpayers of the county, to annul and avoid certain proceedings of the county court, composed of the appellants, Delos Wooruff,. judge, and Patrick Hughes and James A. Cooley, commissioners in county business, on the ground of fraud and collusion among themselves, and with their co-appellant, John H. G-auntlett, and to have certain sums paid out of the county funds, under color of such proceedings, restored to the county treasury. The appellants filed a demurrer…