Platt v. City of Payette
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, for Washington County. Hon. Ed. L. Bryan, Judge. Action to determine the validity of sewer and waterworks bonds of the city of Payette. Judgment for defendant and plaintiff appealed. Sec. 2316, Rev. Codes, empowers the council to issue bonds “for any of the purposes aforesaid.”
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APPEAL from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, for Washington County. Hon. Ed. L. Bryan, Judge. Action to determine the validity of sewer and waterworks bonds of the city of Payette. Judgment for defendant and plaintiff appealed. Sec. 2316, Rev. Codes, empowers the council to issue bonds “for any of the purposes aforesaid.” Does that section use the word “any” in the singular or the plural, especially when construed with the provision in sec. 2315, Amended Session Laws of 1909, page 174, “for any or all of the following purposes”? If the derivative meaning of the word “any”…
1Opinion of the Court
BUDGE, District Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in the district court of the seventh judicial district in favor of the respondent and against the appellant. Said action was brought in the district court upon an agreed statement of facts, under the provisions of chap. 2, title 3, part 3 of the Revised Codes of Idaho.
*475This action was prosecuted to determine the validity of the issue of certain municipal coupon sewer and waterworks bonds of the city of Payette, Idaho. The agreed statement of facts is as follows:
“1. That the said plaintiff, W. H. Platt, is a citizen and taxpayer…
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