Tuttle Bros. & Bruce v. City of Cedar Rapids
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Iowa. Bill by H. O. Tuttle and others, partners as Tuttle Bros. & Bruce, ' against the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Cedar Rapids Savings Bank, and J. M. Dinwiddie. Decree for defendants, and complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree which sustained a demurrer to and dismissed the bill exhibited by H. O. Tut-tle, R. B. Tuttle, and George Q. Bruce, partners as Tuttle Bros. & Bruce, to avoid a contract between them and the city of Cedar Rapids, *87and to enjoin the Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and J. M. Dimviddie, its cashier, from paying to the city the sum of $2,250, which by the terms of the contract it was entitled to receive from them. The bill disclosed these material facts: The complainants purchased a tract of land within the limits of the city of Cedar Rapids,…
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