Troy v. Evans
Supreme Court of the United States
Motion to dismiss a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama. This is an action commenced Oct. 81, 1872, by Evans, Gardner, & Co., against the Mayor and Councilmen of Troy, a municipal corporation in Alabama.
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Motion to dismiss a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama. This is an action commenced Oct. 81, 1872, by Evans, Gardner, & Co., against the Mayor and Councilmen of Troy, a municipal corporation in Alabama. The declaration alleges that the defendant, on the 19th of February, 1869, pursuant to lawful authority, issued certain town bonds, each for $100, payable to bearer, with interest at eight per cent per annum from said date, in ten annual instalments, after the completion of the Mobile and Girard Railroad to said town, together with the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
The writ of error in this case was sued out by the defendants below, upon a judgment rendered May 27,1875, for $3,926.96. If there were nothing more, it would be clear that we have no jurisdiction. The bonds sued upon, however, were payable in instalments, and amounted in the aggregate to more than $5,000, while the instalments due when the judgment was rendered were less. The plea upon which the case was tried put in issue only the ownership of the bonds and the right of the plaintiffs to bring the suit, the claim being that one Jones, a citizen of Alabama, was the real owner, and that the…
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