Legal Opinion

Ottumwa Savings Bank v. City of Ottumwa

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided May 29, 1895PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from Wapello District Court. — Hon. W. I. Babb, Judge. This is a proceeding in equity for the correction of an assessment of personal property. There was a hearing on the merits, and a decree in favor of the ■plaintiff. The defendant appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.

The plaintiff is a corporation duly organized as a savings bank under the laws of this state, and has a paid-up capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. On the twenty-third day of December, 1892, it purchased bonds of the United States of the par value of twenty-five thousand dollars, for which it paid *177the sum of twenty-eight thousand four hundred dollars. All of them were retained and owned by it until the seventeenth day of the next June, when a part, amounting to eleven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, were sold, and others were disposed of from time to time until the twenty-third…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. German American Savings Bank v. City of BurlingtonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1880
  2. Iowa State Savings Bank v. City CouncilSupreme Court of Iowa · 1895
  3. Campbell v. City of CentervilleSupreme Court of Iowa · 1886

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. German American Savings Bank v. Council of BurlingtonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1902
  2. Auditor General v. Bassett's EstateMichigan Supreme Court · 1929
  3. Beard v. Peoples Savings BankIndiana Court of Appeals · 1913
  4. Bissell v. Board of ReviewSupreme Court of Iowa · 1912
  5. State ex rel. Egermayer v. KellySupreme Court of Iowa · 1911

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