Hornblower v. City of Pierre
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of South Dakota; Janies D. Elliott, Judge. Action by Henry Hornblower and another against the City of Pierre. Judgment for defendant (231 Fed. 496), and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs sued the city of Pierre, South Dakota, upon its warrants aggregating $15,000, which purported on their faces to have been issued for public improvements. The city answered: (1) That the warrants were not issued for public improvements, but that they were issued without any consideration received by the city to enable a committee to conduct a campaign to induce the voters in the state of South Dakota to vote to establish the capital of that state at Pierre; (2) that no annual appropriation and no provision for an annual tax to pay the principal and…
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