Commonwealth v. Inhabitants of Williamstown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover certain instalments of interest upon thirty-two thousand two hundred dollars of bonds. At the hearing in the Superior Court, before Thompson, J., it appeared that by the St. of 1854, c. 226, the Treasurer of the Commonwealth was authorized to issue bonds in its name to the amount of $2,000,000, and to deliver the same to the treasurer of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company under certain conditions, one of which was that the company should issue to…
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Contract to recover certain instalments of interest upon thirty-two thousand two hundred dollars of bonds. At the hearing in the Superior Court, before Thompson, J., it appeared that by the St. of 1854, c. 226, the Treasurer of the Commonwealth was authorized to issue bonds in its name to the amount of $2,000,000, and to deliver the same to the treasurer of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company under certain conditions, one of which was that the company should issue to the Commonwealth a bond of indemnity in the said sum of $2,000,000; that soon thereafter, in July, 1855, the railroad…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
By the St. of 1855, c. 394, the town of Williams-town and each of fourteen other towns were authorized to subscribe for shares in the capital stock of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company to a certain amount and under certain conditions, and to raise by loans or taxes any sums of money which should be required to pay the instalments on their respective subscriptions. The Legislature prescribed no terms or method to be observed in raising the money by loans, and therefore the towns might adopt any method that was usual. Meyer v. Muscatine, 1 Wall. 384. Seybert v. Pittsburg, 1 Wall. 272.…
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