PROVISIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF PENSACOLA V. NORTHRUP.
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in Ohio, and the making of a new sale in Louisiana. The thing, the subject of the sale, rf'mained the same in substance and situa· tion. The price was £ot changed The purchaser could not make the cash payment, and the vendor accepted a 60-day draft, with interest, in lieu thereof. This does not express or imply a rescission of the sale already made under the law of Ohio, where the common law governs such contracts. The purchaser did not pay appellant for the machine. It has been seized and sold at the suit of other creditors of the Taylor Bros. Iron-Works Company. Appellant's contract being a common-law contract of sale of personal property, it cannot claim the vendor's privilege given by the Civil Code of Louisiana. The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed. PROVISIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF PENSACOLA v. NORTHRUP. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. No. 341. STREET-RAILWAY COMPANIEB-OBI,IGATION TO PAVE STREETS-RIGHTS OF BOND' HOLDERS.
February 25, 1895.)
A street-railroad company, operating under an ordinance requirmg it to keep "in good condition" the street between its rails and one foot each side thereof, was required by a subsequent ordinance to pave the street to the same extent. The company accepted this ordinance, agreed to pay the town the cost of such paving, and consented that such cost should be a lien on its property. After the passage of the ordinance, but before the date of the agreement, the company issued and sold its mortgage bonds. Held, in a suit to foreclose the mortgage bonds, that the city had no lien for pavements laid under the ordinance and agreement. Chicago v. Sheldon, 9 Wall. 50, and Railroad Co. v. Hamilton, 10 Sup. Ct. 546, 134 U. S. 296, followed.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida. This was a bill by W. H. Bosley, Douglas Gordon, and D. W. Thorne, citizens of Baltimore, Md., against the Pensacola Terminal Company, a corporation of the state of Florida, to foreclose a mort· gage to secure an issue of bonds. The cause was heard in the circuit court upon a petition filed by the provisional municipality of Pensacola against W. H. Northrup, as receiver of the terminal company, praying that certain amounts should be decreed to the petitioner prior to any allowance upon the bonds. The court, by interlocutory order, denied the relief asked, with costs against the vetitioner. From this order the petitioner appealed. The facts, as stated in the appellant's brief, and assenteJ. to and adopted by the appellee, were as follows: On May 1, 1892, the Pensacola Terminal Company was operating a line of street railway in the city of Pensaoola, having been incorporated under the general incorporation laws of Florida, and using the streets of the city under the provisions of an ordinance of December 6, 1882, requiring that the portion ()f the street between the rails of the street railroad, and one foot on each side thereOf, should be kept in good condition. On February 3, A. D. 1892, the provisional municipality of Pensacola enacted an ordinance to pave Palafox street, along which the road of the terminal company was laid, and over which it was operating its horse street cars. One of the provisions of this 01"-
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8l:reet between Its raUs and one foot on each side thereof," in the manner
dlnanee Is (section 3) to "require the Pensacola Terminal C<>mpany topave the
which the municipality should contract for the paving of the entire width ot the street. After that day (May 1, 1892) the terminal company issued bonds to complainants in the bill of complaint, secured by a mortgage on all of Its property, franchises, privileges, and immunities then existing or thereafter to be acquired, and upon its rents, profits, and receipts. On March 6, 1893, after the execution of said mortgage, the terminal company and the munici'pality entered into an agreement by which the former accepted "the benefits, liabilities and terms of the contract for street paving" which the latter had made, and agreed "to pay to the said p,rovisional municipality the amount of the cost of the paving required to be done by it" by the terms of the ordinance, and agreed "that the lien fixed by said ordinance" should "exist upon its property" for the amount apportioned for the paving between the rails and one foot on each side thereof. On May 26, A. D. 1893, the mortgage bondholders filed their bill to foreclose. and for a receiver. On the same day the court made an order appointing W. H. Northrup receiver. On June 15, A. D. 1894, the provisional municipality filed its petition in the court, reciting the afore-mentioned ordinances and agreements; that three installments of the amount for which the terminal company was liable were due and unpaid, and were a lien, under the laws of of prior dignity and paramount to all others on the right of way, rolling stock, and all other property of the terminal company in the hands of the receiver. The prayer of the petition is for the court to .declare such lien, and to decree the payment by the receiver of said amounts, and general relief. The answer of the receiver denies that, under the original charter, it became the duty of the terminal company to bear the expense of paving said portion of the street, and denies that it has ever been the duty of the company, under its charter or the charter of the city of Pensacola, or any ordinance of the city, to pave any portion of the street. It admits that "it may be true" the provisional municipality of Pensacola and the terminal company entered into the said contract, but alleges that the contract was made after the execution and issuance of the first mortgage bonds held in trust by the Baltimore Trust Company, and was never consented to by it or the bondholders, and was not binding upon them, and was not a lien upon said property, in the absence of any law making it SUCh, prior to the lien of the mortgage securing the bonds, and that there is no law of Florida, or valid ordinance of the city of Pensacola, making such paving a Hen upon said property. The evidence submitted was the ordinance of December 6,A. D. 1882, the ordinance of February 3, 1892, and the contract of March 6, A. D. 1893. While It appears that the Pensacola Terminal Company has been incorporated,there is no claim that there is anything in Its charter ail'ecting the right of the city to regulate its use of the public streets under the provisions of the Revised Statutes of Florida.
The decree of the circuit court was in these terms: be and Is hereby denied, and that the said provisional municipality of Pensacola is not entitled to a lien upon the said property of the .said Pensacola Terminal Company for the sums expended for paving tlJ,e said portion of said street between and on each side of its track, .and that the said provisional municipality do pay the costs of this proceeding, and that execution issue therefor. It is ordered,adjudged, and decreed that the prayer of the said Intervention
John C. Avery and C. H. Laney, for appellant. W. A. Blount and A. C. Blount, for appellee. Before PARDEE and McCORMICK, Circuit Judges, and TOULMIN, District, Judge. .' PER CURIAM. We are of opinion that this case is controlled by Ohicago v. Sheldon, 9 Wall. 50, and by Railroad Co. v. Hamilton, 134 U. S. 296, 10 Sup. Ct. 546, and the decree appealed from is affirmed.
, STATE NAT. 'BANK V. NEWTON NAT. BANK.
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STATE NAT. ,BANK OF ST. JOSEPH, MO., v. NEWTON NAT. BANK. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. February 23, 189u.) No. 502. AGREEMENT BY BANK TO PAY NOTE-POWER OF CARHIER.
The complaint in an action by one bank against another bank on notes payable to the M. Co., and executed by its stockholders, who constituted the board of directors, among whom was C., the cashier of defendant bank, alleged that plaintiff had discounted the notes at the request and for the benefit of defendant; that the proceeds had been received by defendant, and used by it in its business; that, though defendant did not indorse the notes when they were discounted, yet they were executed, and indorsed by the payee to plaintiff, solely for the accommodation of defendant, it agreeing by letter written by C. that at maturity the notes might be charged to defendant, if anangements were not made for their renewal. The answer alleged that the notes were executed for the accommodation of the payee, under an arrangement with plaintiff to discount the notes for the sole benefit of the payee, and not for the benefit of defendant; that the letter written by C. was without the knowledge or ratification of defendant or its directors, and that the bank had received no consideration for the promise that the notes might be charged to its account at maturity; that plaintiff knew at the time that C. was not only one of the makers of the notes, but also a stockholder and officer of the payee and indorser, yet did not make inquiry as to his authority to bind defendant; that C., in sending the letter, was lOot acting altogether for defendant" as its cashier, but was also acting for himself and the M. Co., which plaintiff then knew; that C., in requesting plaintiff to place the proceeds to defendant's credit, did so as the representative of the M. Co., which plaintiff then knew, and that with such knowledge, and in compliance with such direction of C., plaintiff placed the proceeds to defendant's credit; that the 1\1. Co. directed the proceeds of the notes to be thus placed to defendant's credit as a mere matter of convenience to the M. Co., and not as a matter of convenience to defendant; that defendant had no notice of such direction till after the credit was given; and that in giving such direction the M. Co., as plaintiff knew, did so merely to facilitate the transmission to it of the proceeds of the loan. Held, that plaintiff's motion for a judgment on the pleadings was properly ovenuled, as it admitted all the allegations of the answer, and it is not within the scope of the ordinary duties of a cashier to bind his bank by agreement to discharge obligations which he has himself contracted for the accommodation of a third party.
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District Action by the State National Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., against the Newton National Bank, on notes. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff brings error. M. A. Reed and J. G. Slonecker filed brief for plaintiff in error. C. S. Bowman and Oharles Bucher filed brief for defendant in error. Before CALDWELL, SANBORN, and THAYER, Circuit Judges. THAYER, Circuit Judge. The sole question presented by this record is whether an answer filed by the Newton National Bank, the de· fendant in error"to a suit brought against it by the State National Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., the plaintiff in error, stated a good defense of Kansas.