Legal Opinion

Hoffman v. County Commissioners

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided September 7, 1895PublishedCited by 23 opinions

Error from the District Court of Pawnee County. STATEMENT OP THE CASE. On the 16tli day qf November, 1894, the county commissioners and county clerk of Pawnee county appeared before the district court of said county, pursuant to published notice as required by law, and filed a petition to 'issue funding bonds of said county.

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Error from the District Court of Pawnee County. STATEMENT OP THE CASE. On the 16tli day qf November, 1894, the county commissioners and county clerk of Pawnee county appeared before the district court of said county, pursuant to published notice as required by law, and filed a petition to 'issue funding bonds of said county. In said petition it was represented that the amount of outstanding indebtedness due and unpaid aggregated the sum of $20,178.68, and that the assessed valuation of the taxable property of said county at said date reached the sum of $222,318. At the hearing, John F. Stone,…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scott, J.:

This cause involves the same questions presented to the court in the case of Nicholas and William Sauer v. J. W. McMurty, as a tax payer and county attorney of Roger Mills county, and was consolidated with this one for the purpose of argument before this court.

The question in the Pawnee county case comes to this court by the petition in error of holders of warrants issued subsequent to the first assessment, who claim to be prejudiced by the action of the district court of Pawnee county, excluding warrants issued since the assessment in excess…

2Cited by23 opinions

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  2. Corning v. Board of Com'rs of Meade Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1900
  3. Bridgers v. City of LampasasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1923
  4. Haskins & Sells v. Oklahoma CitySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1912
  5. League v. Town of TalogaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1913

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