Twichell v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, French, J., entered January 14, 1919, dismissing an action to restrain a municipal purchase of a street railway system, upon sustaining demurrers to affirmative defenses.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This action was instituted by appellant, F. A. Twichell, as a taxpayer, to restrain the respondents, the city of Seattle and Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company, a corporation, from entering into a contract whereby $15,000,000 of utility bonds, payable from the revenues of the entire system, as provided for by ordinances of the city, are to be delivered to the traction company by the city in payment for the street railway system of the traction company in the city, which system the city is seeking to acquire as an addition and betterment to, and extension of, the city’s existing…
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