Riggs v. City of St. Louis

Opinion of the Court, delivered by

Tompkins, Judge.

The plaintiff in error, Elisha Riggs, commenced his suit in the court of common pleas, against the City of St. Louis, upon several instruments of writing, made by the city in the form following, to wit:

Treasurer of the City of St. Louis, pay to beai'er fifty dollars, being half a year’s interest due on, &c., on.the bond of the City of St. Louis, number — , to R. Simpson or order, on account of funded debt. Signed, &c.

to dama* ges upon a ^exchange,* d o gotiated the^ill^must express to be eped.)’ °

*439The counsel for the plaintiff in error has…