Andrus v. Crystal City

Appellant instituted this suit to recover of appellee the sum of $700, as evidenced by 7 city warrants issued by ap-pellee. The defense was that the warrants were given as part of a series of warrants issued by appellee in payment of an amount due on an electric light plant, sold by appellant to appellee, and that the same were illegally issued by appellee, in that they were made payable out of the general fund, and when the debt was made no other provision was made for payment of the debt, except the issuance of the warrants, and there was no fund out of which they could legally be paid. The…