Hagood v. Southern
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE • DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. These two oases were heard together in thé Circuit Court upon the same testimony, and the same decree passed in each.
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE • DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. These two oases were heard together in thé Circuit Court upon the same testimony, and the same decree passed in each. The facts, common to both, were as follows:. By an.act of the General Assembly of South Carolina, passed September 15, 1868, entitled “ An act to authorize additional aid to the Blue Ridge Railroad Company in South Carolina,” the State, by a guaranty indorsed thereon, pledged its faith ' and funds to the payment of the principal and interest of bonds to be issued by the railroad company,…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. JtfSTioE Matthews
delivered the opinion of the court. After stating the cáse as above reported, he continued:
No specific provision is made in these decrees for the redemption of the revenue bond scrip in which the assignees of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company claim an interest, nor any direction to the treasurers of the counties in which its taxes are due to receive the scrip in payment therefor from the company; but the command of the decrees is broad enough to include such relief in their favor. But; it is difficult to conceive on what theory of the relation between the railroad company…
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