Tucker v. Mayor of Virginia
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. The opinion of the Court sets forth all the allegations of the pleadings, and the proceedings necessary for a full understanding of the points decided. The contract set forth was clearly within the power of. the council to make, and has been executed by the plaintiff.
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Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. The opinion of the Court sets forth all the allegations of the pleadings, and the proceedings necessary for a full understanding of the points decided. The contract set forth was clearly within the power of. the council to make, and has been executed by the plaintiff. If it be objected that the council was confined in the making of it to-providing for the indigent, the contract would only be objectionable in so far as it attempted to provide for those not indigent, not in toto. The demurrer then should not have been…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lewis, J.
The plaintiff brings this action to recover the sum of six thousand eight hundred and three dollars, claimed to be due him for services rendered as city physician, and upon the following contract which is made a part of the complaint:
“ This agreement, made and entered into this fourteenth day of November, a.d. (1864) one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, between the City of Virginia, County of Storey, State of Nevada, party of the first part, and Doctor Joseph C. Tucker, a practicing physician in and of the said City, County, and State, party of the second part,…
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