Cloud v. Town of Sumas

Citations

• 9 Wash. 399
• 37 P. 305
• 1894 Wash. LEXIS 328

Syllabus

<p>MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS — REFUSAL TO PAY WARRANTS — REMEDY.</p> <p>An action cannot be maintained upon a warrant issued by a municipal corporation evidencing its indebtedness to the holder, but the remedy of the holder, in case of the refusal of the treasurer of the corporation to pay the warrant in its order, is to proceed against that officer by mandamus, and, in such proceeding, questions affecting the legality of the warrant can be tried. ( Dunbar, C. J., dissents.)</p>