County Commissioners v. Hunt
Ohio Supreme Court
In chancery. Reserved in Lucas county. This is a bill in chancery, filed by the county commissioners of Lucas county, to enjoin the payment to defendants, of county orders of Lucas county to the amount of nine thousand twenty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents, issued to them by the predecessors of the board of commissioners filing said bill.
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In chancery. Reserved in Lucas county. This is a bill in chancery, filed by the county commissioners of Lucas county, to enjoin the payment to defendants, of county orders of Lucas county to the amount of nine thousand twenty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents, issued to them by the predecessors of the board of commissioners filing said bill. The material facts in the case are the following: Eor a number of years previous to 1840, much difficulty had existed in Lucas county in regard to the location of the county seat of that county, and for the purpose of finally quieting those difficulties,…
1Opinion of the CourtJ. R. Swan, J.
There is not proof of collusion or unfairness used to 'obtain a compromise of the claim of the defendants upon the county. The object of the donations of the defendants to the county, was to procure the county seat to be located at Maumee. It could not have entered into the contemplation of the parties, that the county seat, after being once established at Maumee, would, in the course of years, be removed. It was, however, removed, and the county, notwithstanding, claimed the property of defendants, and the right to use and dispose of it for other purposes than those for which the defendants…
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- Skirving v. National Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1894
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