Davis v. City of San Antonio

FLY, O. J.

Appellant instituted this suit against the city of San Antonio, its mayor, Clinton G. Brown, and J. Frank Gallagher, its treasurer, to restrain the payment by the city of San Antonio to a certain bank of a commission of 1.99 per cent, for the sale of certain improvement bonds issued by the city in the sum of $3,450,000, and the payment of a fee of $3,000 to a firm of attorneys of New York City. It was alleged in the petition that the city council of San Antonio is authorized by section 53 of its charter to borrow money on the credit of the city, and to issue bonds for permanent…