McCombs v. West

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff-appellants’ bill for a declaratory judgment and injunction was dismissed on a motion of defendant-appellees for a summary judgment. The main questions are whether bondholders of a city in Florida are bound by judgments in the State courts, rendered after the issue of the bonds and to which the bondholders were not parties, whereby owners of a great part of the land in the city and subject to taxation to pay the bonds was excluded from the city and released from all debts, duties or liabilities of the city; and whether this result deprives the bondholders of…