Dorian v. City of Shreveport

Plaintiff sues to recover a debt of $3,000, with interest, due to Dorian by defendant, a municipal corporation. The debt is alleged to be duo because defendant employed Bobson & Baer to grade, and otherwise improve, certain streets, which they satisfactorily performed. Plaintiff shows that the contractors agreed to receive, and the city agreed to pay, for the work, one-half in cash, and the other half in 10-year bonds; that three of such bonds, purporting to be commercial paper, for $1,000 each, were issued and given to contractors; that these bonds came into the hands of Dorian in due course…