James v. City of Hamburg
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Fremont District Court. — O. D. Wheeler, Judge. Action in mandamus to compel the city council to deliver certain certificates due under a contract for curbing entered into between the city and H. C. McMaken & Sons Company. The controversy is between the plaintiff and the intervener. Bach claims under separate assignments from McMaken & Sons Company. Judgment and decree for the plaintiff. Intervener appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGaynor, J.
This ease involves a controversy between the plaintiff and the Merchants’ Exchange Bank of Hamburg, intervener, over the right to certain certificates due from the city of Hamburg to H. C. McMaken & Sons Co., under a contract for the construction and building of curbing in the defendant city. The controversy arises in this way: W. C. James operates a lumberyard in the city, and at various times, hereinafter mentioned, furnished material to McMaken & Sons Company to Be used in the construction of said sewers, and claims a right to the certificates under an assignment made to him by McMaken &…
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