Stewart v. Custer County

Citations

• 14 S.D. 155
• 84 N.W. 764
• 1900 S.D. LEXIS 19

Syllabus

<p>' Tlie purchaser of a county warrant drawn on the general fund “not otherwise appropriated,” and registered for payment under Comp.. Laws, .§§ 1671-16 ! 9, declaring warrants shall be paid only in the order of their registration, could not maintain an action on the warrant; there being ho money in the'general fund not otherwise appropriated, and other prior registered warrants outstanding, and it appearing that sufficient time had npt elapsed to permit the accumulation. .of sufficient money to pay plaintiff’s warrant in the order of registration.</p>