City of Memphis v. Bethel

These causes commenced by petitions for mandamus against the city of Memphis, in the second circuit court of Shelby county. The several relators are holders and owuers of coupons of the bonds of the city of Memphis, representing interest on the bonds past due. They all obtained writs of alternative mandamus, and after returns thereto the writs of mandamus were made peremptory, from which judgments the city has appealed. Hpon looking into the several cases, we find that the pleadings have been made up in the case of P. 0. Bethel, in a manner more fully to raise the questions to he decided than…