Rogan v. City of Watertown
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. Plaintiff in error brought Ms action in said court to recover the amount of interest coupons originally attached to and forming a part of bonds issued by the city of "Watertown, in aid of the construction of certain railways.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. Plaintiff in error brought Ms action in said court to recover the amount of interest coupons originally attached to and forming a part of bonds issued by the city of "Watertown, in aid of the construction of certain railways. The complaint contained three counts, the first and second of which were upon coupons which had been annexed to bonds issued by said city in aid respectively of the Milwaukee and Watertown Railway, and the Watertown and Madison Railway, the bonds being issued in conformity with acts of the legislature of the state,…
1Opinion of the CourtDixoN, C. J.
The circuit court found against the plaintiff in error, who was the plaintiff below, upon the first and third count or cause of action set out in the complaint, and in bis favor upon the second count.
We are-not advised of the grounds of this decision, except as they are shown by the briefs of counsel for the respective parties, from which it would seem that the ground of decision against the plaintiff, on the first count, was that the bond therein described, to which the interest warrant or coupon sued on was annexed, was given upon or in pursuance of a loan of its credit by the city of…
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