City of Port Townsend v. First Nat. Bank of Central City
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Jeremiah Neterer, Judge. Action at law by the First National Bank of Central City, Colo., against the City of Port Townsend, Wash. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Jeremiah Neterer, Judge. Action at law by the First National Bank of Central City, Colo., against the City of Port Townsend, Wash. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. The defendant in error brought an action at law against the plaintiff in error on warrants issued by the latter, drawn on the Indebtedness fund of the city, to obtain a-judgment, preliminary to mandamus against the city officers to compel them to levy taxes for the indebtedness fund wherewith to…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The defendant presents certain questions which were determined by this court in Intermela v. Perkins, 205 Fed. 603, 123 C. C. A. 619. Those questions were carefully considered, both on the original hearing and on a petition for rehearing, and a petition to the Supreme Court for certiorari was denied. Intermela v. Perkins, 231 U. S. 757, 34 Sup. Ct. 324, 58 L. Ed. 468. One of the questions so decided, and now again presented, was whether the city council of the defendant, which met at a regular session on February 15, 1898, and took recess until a designated…
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