Selser v. City of Stuart

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit against the City of Stuart and one Cook, sued as representative of the-City’s bondholders as a class, was brought for a declaratory judgment that the City of Stuart was without authority to assess, and to levy and collect taxes on, described properties of plaintiffs to pay its bonded indebtedness. Alleging that the city had petitioned for and filed in the Bankruptcy-Court a plan for the composition of its indebtedness and that it was necessary that the court first determine what property is. liable to pay its alleged debts, the suit, in. addition to praying…