City of Alma v. Guaranty Sav. Bank
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. Action by the Guaranty Savings Bank against the city of Alma upon coupons on certain municipal bonds. Plaintiff obtained judgment. Defendant brings error. This was a suit on coupons of municipal bonds which were issued and sold by the city of Alma, a city of the third class of the state of Kansas, situated in the county of Wabaunsee.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. Action by the Guaranty Savings Bank against the city of Alma upon coupons on certain municipal bonds. Plaintiff obtained judgment. Defendant brings error. This was a suit on coupons of municipal bonds which were issued and sold by the city of Alma, a city of the third class of the state of Kansas, situated in the county of Wabaunsee. The power to issue the bonds was derived from section 38, art. 3, of an act to provide for the' incorporation of cities of the third class (vide Gen. St. Kan. 1889, par. 961), which is…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, District Judge
The city of Alma contests the validity of the judgment rendered by the circuit court, mainly on the ground, that its counsel did not enact an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the proposition to issue improvement bonds. It is claimed that under the charter of the city a resolution of the council, such as was in fact adopted, was not the proper mode of inviting an expression of the popular will touching an issue of improvement bonds, and that, because a resolution was passed in lieu of an ordinance, all subsequent proceedings taken thereunder were invalid, and the bonds…
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