Brown v. City of Atchison
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Atohison District Court. This was an action brought in the district court of Atchison county on March 26,1883, by the city of Atchison against William Hetherington and Webster W. Hetherington, partners as Wm. Hetherington & Co., to have certain bonds of the city of Atchison, twenty in number and each for $500, amounting in the aggregate to $10,000, canceled and declared null and void for illegality in their execution, and for want of consideration.
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Error from Atohison District Court. This was an action brought in the district court of Atchison county on March 26,1883, by the city of Atchison against William Hetherington and Webster W. Hetherington, partners as Wm. Hetherington & Co., to have certain bonds of the city of Atchison, twenty in number and each for $500, amounting in the aggregate to $10,000, canceled and declared null and void for illegality in their execution, and for want of consideration. On December 12,1883, the defendants answered, setting forth the circumstances under which the bonds were placed in their hands, that…
1Opinion of the Court
*43The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
On August 23,1879, Brown & Bier owned bonds of the city of Atchison, which was then a city of the second class, amounting in the aggregate, principal and interest, to the sum of $49,943.95, which by an agreement with the city were re-funded at the rate of sixty cents on the dollar, Brown & Bier receiving in new or re-funding bonds $29,950, and in money $16.37. Also, as a part of the same transaction, other new or re-funding bonds to the amount of $10,000 were issued by the city of Atchison and deposited with Wm. Hetherington & Co. as…
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