Seymour v. City of Ellensburg

— This was a suit by a taxpayer for the purpose of determining whether Ellensburg, a city of the third class, had exceeded its constitutional debt limit of one and one-half per cent, without a vote of the people. The plaintiff claims that the city had exceeded this debt limit on August 10, 1912, October 7, 1912, and July 15, 1913. Whether, on any of these dates, the debt limit had been exceeded depends first, upon what assets of the city were equivalent to cash and, therefore, subj ect to be offset against the total indebtedness; and second, whether certain warrants evidence an obligation of…