Bloomfield v. Charter Oak Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT. This action was brought J une 5, 1880, by a national bank against the Town of Bloomfield in the State of Connecticut, upon three promissory notes, dated June 20, June 21, and July 1, 1879, and payable three months after date, for the aggregate sum of $19,433.30, and all alike in form, the first being as follows: “Hartford, June 20, 1879. $5500. Three months after date The Town of Bloomfield…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT. This action was brought J une 5, 1880, by a national bank against the Town of Bloomfield in the State of Connecticut, upon three promissory notes, dated June 20, June 21, and July 1, 1879, and payable three months after date, for the aggregate sum of $19,433.30, and all alike in form, the first being as follows: “Hartford, June 20, 1879. $5500. Three months after date The Town of Bloomfield promise to pay to the order of S. J. Mills fifty-five hundred dollars at Charter Oak National Bank. Yalue received. “ S. J.,…
1Opinion of the Court
.Mr. Justice Gray,
after stating the ease as above reported, .delivered the opinion of the court,
W e have not found it necessary to consider how far a town in .Connecticut has the power to give promissory notes, because in our opinion the evidence in this case is incompetent to prove that this town ever authorized its treasurer to make the notes in suit, Or did any :act which made them binding on the town.
Towns in Connecticut, as in the other New England Statés, differ from trading companies, and even from municipal corporations elsewhere. They are territorial corporations,'.into which the…
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