City of Goldfield v. MacDonald

The action is for the cancellation of certain outstanding municipal obligations of the city of Goldfield, referred to as “water right obligations,” the precise form of which is set out at length in the complaint. The allegations of the complaint disclose, in substance, this state of facts:

That prior to the 12th day of November, 1900, the defendants, Minnie, Christina, Tenna and Kittie MacDonald, now Kittie Eliason, were the owners of an undivided half of ten acres of land described in the complaint; *145that these defendants, .with one John MacDonaM, • who was- then acting as attorney in fact for…