BISSELL v. City of Jeffersonville
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district oflndiapa. The foots of the case are fully stated in the opinion - of the courtJ The reporter despairs of, giving &n account of these arguments within a reasonable space, and therefore omits. them. altogether.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This case comes before t.he court upon a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Indiana. It was an action of assumpsit, and was instituted by the present plaintiffs against the corporation defendants, to recover two instalments of interest which had accrued upon certain bonds, purporting to liave been duly issued in the name of the defendants, for stock subscribed in their behalf by the common council of the city to the Fort Wayne and Southern Railroad Company. Assuming to act in behalf of the city, the common council subscribed two hundred thousand…
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