Springfield Safe-Deposit & Trust Co. v. City of Attica
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United Stales for the District of' Kansas. This action is based on the coupons of certain negotiable bonds, which were executed on January 1, 1889, by the city of Attica, a city of the third class, situated in Harper county, Kan.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United Stales for the District of' Kansas. This action is based on the coupons of certain negotiable bonds, which were executed on January 1, 1889, by the city of Attica, a city of the third class, situated in Harper county, Kan. The case was tried below without the intervention of a jury, on an agreed statement of facts, from which agreed statement the following- facts appear, which are all that we deem material, in view of the questions that are presented by the record: On November 20, 1888, certain citizens of the city of Attica, petitioned the mayor…
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, Circuit Judge.
It is insisted, in the first place, by counsel for the defendant city, that the case is not properly before this court for review, because the assignment of errors does not contain a prayer for reversal, within the purview of section 997 of the Revised Statutes of the United States; and, in the second place, that no question is before this court for review, because the record shows that the case was tried and submitted September 19, 1896, and held under advisement until March 18, 1897, at which latter date the plaintiff below filed a motion for a judgment in its favor on…
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