# City of Long Beach v. Morse

> California Supreme Court · December 30, 1947 · 31 Cal. 2d 254

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9630103

## Case

- **Full name:** CITY OF LONG BEACH, Petitioner, v. H. C. MORSE, as City Treasurer, Etc., Respondent
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 30, 1947
- **Citations:** 31 Cal. 2d 254; 188 P.2d 17; 1947 Cal. LEXIS 238
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Edmonds
- **Judges:** Traynor, Edmonds, Schauer
- **Cited by:** 19 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

EDMONDS, J.
I concur in the conclusion that the revenue which is here in controversy may not be used for general municipal purposes. But I again call attention to the impropriety of a “friendly suit” by which only the city and one of its officers litigate a question of great public interest. (Paso Robles etc. Hospital Dist. v. Negley, 29 Cal.2d 203 [ 173 P.2d 813 ]; City of Whittier v. Dixon, 24 Cal.2d 664, 668 [ 151 P.2d 5 , 153 A.L.R. 956]; City and County of San Francisco v. Boyd, 22 Cal.2d 685, 707 [ 140 P.2d 666 ]; City and County of San Francisco v. Linares, 16 Cal.2d 441, 448 [ 106 P.2d 369 ].)

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