President of Keithsburg v. Frick
Illinois Supreme Court
Weft of Error to the Circuit Court of Mercer county; the Hon. Charles B. Lawrence, Judge, presiding. This was an action of debt brought by Charles A. Frick against The President and Trustees of the town of Keithsburg, in the court below, at the September term, 1863, upon twenty-one interest coupons, the same having been detached from bonds issued by the defendant to the Warsaw & Rockford Railroad Company, numbered, respectively, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8, and bearing date" June…
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Weft of Error to the Circuit Court of Mercer county; the Hon. Charles B. Lawrence, Judge, presiding. This was an action of debt brought by Charles A. Frick against The President and Trustees of the town of Keithsburg, in the court below, at the September term, 1863, upon twenty-one interest coupons, the same having been detached from bonds issued by the defendant to the Warsaw & Rockford Railroad Company, numbered, respectively, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8, and bearing date" June 1st, 1857, such coupons being for interest claimed to be due on such bonds, respectively, June 1st, 1862, December 1st,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
The plaintiff in error contends that the town of Keithsburg, ■while acting under the general incorporation law, had no authority either to take stock in a railroad company or to hold an election to vote on that question; that any subscription made by the town through its board of trustees, and the bonds issued for the same are void; that if the town had authority to hold an election for such purpose, the election, in this case, was fraudulent and void, because only á part of the legal voters -of the town were allowed to vote; that the bonds being void, •no act of recognition by the town, such…
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