Fresno Canal & Irrigation Co. v. McKenzie

Citations

• 6 Cal. Unrep. 691
• 65 P. 473
• 1901 Cal. LEXIS 1271

Syllabus

<p>City Treasurer—Payment of Claim—Misconduct.—Where a decree of a court having jurisdiction directed a city treasurer to pay a certain claim against the city, such decree was a complete defense to an action to charge him with official misconduct in having paid the claim.</p> <p>City Treasurer—Payment of Claim.—Where Judgment had Been Rendered for plaintiff in an action against a city treasurer and board of trustees to compel payment of a claim against the city, such judgment was sufficient to justify the treasurer in paying the claim, though the trustees refused to approve it, or issue a warrant thereon.</p> <p>City Treasurer—Payment of Claim.—Where a City Treasurer, acting under a judgment, paid a claim against the city, such judgment was admissible in evidence as justification in an action charging him with official misconduct in having paid the claim.</p>