City of Santa Cruz v. Waite
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
The constitution of California provides for the classification of municipal corporations. The plaintiff in error (defendant in the court below) is, and was at all the times mentioned in the record, a municipal corporation of the fifth class, organized and existing under and by virtue of a statute of the state of California, approved March 31, 1806 (St. 1865-66, p. 547), entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Santa Cruz,” and an act supplemental thereto, approved March 11, 1878, entitled “An act to reincorporate the city of Santa Cruz” (St. 1878, p. 189). The present…
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