Daggett v. Lynch
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court of Salt Lake county, Hon. A. N. Cherry, Judge. Action by plaintiff, to obtain a writ of mandate to compel the payment of certain county warrants. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The respondent is not entitled to any interest on the warrants in question, as they were never registered after tbeir validation.
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Appeal from the district court of Salt Lake county, Hon. A. N. Cherry, Judge. Action by plaintiff, to obtain a writ of mandate to compel the payment of certain county warrants. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The respondent is not entitled to any interest on the warrants in question, as they were never registered after tbeir validation. P. V. Coal Co. v. County Commissioners, 15 Utah 106-107; Deny v. Ames,.26 Cal. 372. If the court * * * concludes that the warrants should bear interest, then such interest should only be allowed from June 5, 1896, the day the warrants were…
1Opinion of the CourtZane, C. J.
This is an appeal by the defendant, from a judgment of the district court, requiring him to pay to the plaintiff, two warrants issued to his assignor by the county clerk of Salt Lake county, one Dated December 10, 1894, for $8.00, incurred for the benefit of paupers and insane persons, and the other dated December 17, 1894, for $26.00, for labor upon the public roads. It appears that both were issued for indebtedness incurred in excess of the debt limit of the county, as provided by law, and were void, for that reason. It further appears that the legislature of the State, by an act approved…
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