New Orleans v. Clark
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the District of .Louisiana. This was an action commenced Eeb. 7, T-874, by Freeman Clark against the Jefferson City Gas-light Company and the city’of Carrollton, La., to recover $7,200, the amount of overdue interest, coupons cut from certain bonds issued by said city, to that company.
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Error to the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the District of .Louisiana. This was an action commenced Eeb. 7, T-874, by Freeman Clark against the Jefferson City Gas-light Company and the city’of Carrollton, La., to recover $7,200, the amount of overdue interest, coupons cut from certain bonds issued by said city, to that company. On the 11th of January, 1871, the mayor and council ,of the .city of Carrollton, passed an .ordinance authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract with that company to light the city and supply the . citizens with" gas-light, and providing that, in’…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This was an action upon several coupons for interest .annexed to bonds issued by the late city of Carrollton, in Louisiana, to the Jefferson City Gas-light Company, a corporation created .under the laws of that State, for laying gas-pipes through certain .streets of the city, and introducing gas for the use of its citizens. The bonds were indorsed by the president of the company, with its- guaranty, for the payment of their principal and interest. His authority to make this guaranty, so far as it relates to the interest, was denied by the company; but the Circuit Court held that ,the…
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