Burleigh v. Town of Rochester

The law and facts of this case, by stipulation between the parties, have been left to the court. The suit was originally brought in the state court, and transferred to this court. It is an action on four bonds of $500 each, numbered 5, 6, 7, and 8, issued by the defendant, and made payable to the Fox River Yalley Bailroad Company, on the first of November, 1856, under the authority of an act of the legislature of March 15, 1856, and found in chapter 138 of the Local and Private Laws of Wisconsin of that year. That act authorized several towns in the county of Bacine, Rochester among others,…