City of Anniston v. Safe-Deposit & Trust Co. of Baltimore
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to (he Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama. This was an action at law by tbe Safe-Deposit & Trust Company of Baltimore against the city of Anniston to recover on interest coupons of municipal bonds. There was judgment for plaintiff in the court below, and the defendant sued out this writ of error.
1Per curiam
The question sought to be presented in this case is one of pleading under the Alabama Code. The plaintiff below filed a shorthand complaint to recover on 147 past-due coupons for semiannual interest on bonded indebtedness of tbe city of Anniston. To this complaint the defendant demurred on nine different grounds, principally complaining of misjoinder and general want of description of the instruments sued on. This demurrer was overruled, and thereupon the plaintiff took leave to amend by the addition of a second count, which was a declaration on 225 other coupons, for which judgment was also…
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