Buckeye Engine Co. v. City of Cherokee
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Alfalfa County; James W. Steen, Judge. Action by the City of Cherokee, Oklahoma, against the Buckeye Engine Company, a corporation. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. This was an action brought under the provisions of Rev. Laws 1910, sec. 6777, by the defendant in error to recover double the amount of two certain warrants aggregating $3,250, issued'to the plaintiff in error and paid to it by the defendant in error.
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Error from District Court, Alfalfa County; James W. Steen, Judge. Action by the City of Cherokee, Oklahoma, against the Buckeye Engine Company, a corporation. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. This was an action brought under the provisions of Rev. Laws 1910, sec. 6777, by the defendant in error to recover double the amount of two certain warrants aggregating $3,250, issued'to the plaintiff in error and paid to it by the defendant in error. It appears from the evidence that on September 24, 1908, the engine company entered into a contract with the city, by which it agreed to…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
DEVEREUX, C.
(after stating the facts as above.) This action is brought under the provisions of Rev. Laws 1910, sec. 6777, which reads as follows:
“Every officer of any county, township, city, town [village] or school district, who shall order or direct the payment of any money or transfer of any property belonging to such county, township, city, town [village] or school district in settlement of any claim known to such officers to be fraudulent or void, or in pursuance of any unauthorized, unlawful or fraudulent contract or agreement made or attempted to be made, for any such county,…
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