Dively v. City of Cedar Falls
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Blade Hawle District Court. Petition in ordinary, upon seventy written obligations, signed by the mayor and recorder of defendant and sealed with its seal. The obligations (except the date, signatures and seals) were executed in lithograph with vignettes, and in appearance not unlike common bank-bills.
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Appeal from Blade Hawle District Court. Petition in ordinary, upon seventy written obligations, signed by the mayor and recorder of defendant and sealed with its seal. The obligations (except the date, signatures and seals) were executed in lithograph with vignettes, and in appearance not unlike common bank-bills. They were made payable to persons other than those to whom they were issued and delivered; were all of the same date, and made payable two years therefrom to the payee’ or bearer, some of them being for five and others for two dollars each. . ’ • The answer denies the execution of…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
^iriteresi. I. In the course of the selection of a jury, one of the jurors on the regular panel was challenged for cause, on the ground that he was a citizen of and tax-payer in the town of Cedar Falls, the defendant. These facts being shown, the court sustained the challenge, and excluded the juror. The regular panel being afterward exhausted, the court directed the sheriff that, in the selection of talesmen, he must not summon any who were citizens and tax payers of defendant, and the sheriff governed himself accordingly, to all which the defendant, duly excepted.
Upon the general principle…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Davenport Gas Light & Coke Co. v. City of DavenportSupreme Court of Iowa · 1862
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