Board of Sup'rs v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of California. C. B. Bullock and others, taxpayers of the Perris Irrigation District, together with the board of supervisors of Riverside county, state of California, seek by this writ of error to review the judgment of the court below rendered on proceedings which were instituted by the defendants in error to obtain a mandamus directing the- said board of supervisors to levy a tax for the payment…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of California. C. B. Bullock and others, taxpayers of the Perris Irrigation District, together with the board of supervisors of Riverside county, state of California, seek by this writ of error to review the judgment of the court below rendered on proceedings which were instituted by the defendants in error to obtain a mandamus directing the- said board of supervisors to levy a tax for the payment of a certain judgment which had been rendered in that court. The judgment had been obtained in an action brought on…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
So far as the assignments of error seek to raise questions which were adjudicated in the former judgment of this court, they will not be here considered. It is contended that the state board of supervisors had no power to make the levy which was prayed for. The statute of 1897 (page 267, c. 189, § 39) reads as follows:
“The hoard of directors shall then levy an assessment sufficient to raise the annual interest on the outstanding bonds, and in any year in which any bonds fall due must increase said assessment to an amount sufficient to raise a sum sufficient to pay the principal of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stewart v. SalamonSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
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- Nevada National Bank of San Francisco v. Board of SupervisorsCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1907
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