SOVEREIGN CAMP, W. O. W. v. GILLESPIE

Nos. 10630, 10634.

87 F.2d 944 (1937)

SOVEREIGN CAMP, W. O. W., v. GILLESPIE et al. YELL COUNTY, ARK., et al. v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 12, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Donham, of Little Rock, Ark. (Sam Rorex and Martin K. Fulk, both of Little Rock, Ark., on the brief), for appellant Woodmen of the World.

Thomas Boyers, Lewis Robinson, and F. D. Majors, all of Dardanelle, Ark., for appellants Yell County, Ark., and others.

Wallace Townsend, of Little Rock, Ark. (James G. Martin, Thomas E. Elcock, and Allen A. Schaefer, all of Wichita, Kan., on the brief), for appellees.

Before GARDNER, WOODROUGH, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.


WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The Sovereign Camp, Woodmen of the World, is the owner of funding bonds issued by Yell County, Ark., in 1925, payable out of a general property tax levy of not to exceed three mills. It has appealed to reverse a decree in equity which held other bonds issued by the county three years later to be valid, put them on a parity with the Woodmen's bonds and required the proceeds of the three-mill tax to be apportioned between the holders of the...

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