Bull v. . Sims

We are of opinion that the instruments on which the action was brought were negotiable, and that the defendant was properly held liable as an indorser thereon. They were made by the city of Milwaukie, and are in the form of bills drawn by its mayor on its treasurer, attested by its clerk and countersigned by its comptroller, and directing the treasurer to pay to the order of the defendant certain sums therein specified, with interest, "out of any funds belonging to the city not before specially appropriated," and then it is added that the same were on the date thereof allowed for dredging,…