Kirkbride v. Lafayette County
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. Suit to recover on interest coupons of bonds issued by the county in payment of a subscription to the capital stock of the St. Louis & St. Joseph Railroad Company. The answer denied the authority of the county to make the subscription.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. Suit to recover on interest coupons of bonds issued by the county in payment of a subscription to the capital stock of the St. Louis & St. Joseph Railroad Company. The answer denied the authority of the county to make the subscription. The court, a jury being waived, made the following special findings: I. The plaintiff’s action is on coupons of bonds amounting to five thousand seven hundred dollars. These bonds were issued and delivered by the county court of the defendant to the St. Louis & St. Joseph…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This .is an action upon sundry coupons of bonds issued in November, 1868, and March, 1869, by the' County Court of Lafayette County, Missouri, in the name of that county, and in payment of a subscription by it made, in • behalf of Lexington, township, in that county,, to the capital stock of the St. Louis and St. Joseph Railroad Company, a .corporation created-under-the laws of that State. The bonds recite that they were authorized by a vote of the people, and also that they-were issued under and pursuant to an order of the County Court of Lafayette County, by authority'of an act of the…
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