Breckinridge County v. McCracken
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. The case first named was a suit brought by McCracken and others, partners under the name of W. V. McCracken & Co., and citizens of the state of New York, against the county of Breckinridge, one of the counties of the state of Kentucky.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. The case first named was a suit brought by McCracken and others, partners under the name of W. V. McCracken & Co., and citizens of the state of New York, against the county of Breckinridge, one of the counties of the state of Kentucky. The subject-matter of the suit was 180 coupons of $30 each, being for three installments of interest accruing upon certain bonds issued by the defendant county as obligor for certain unincorporated precincts of said county. The county filed a general demurrer to the petition of…
1Opinion of the Court
LTTKTON, Circuit
Judge (after stating the facts as above). A number of objections have been urged as operating to avoid liability upon the coupons in suit, which will be considered in such order as is most convenient.
*194The first and most serions defense is as to whether the act authorizing k subscription to the stock of the Louisville, Hardinsburg & Western Railway Company, by the “magisterial precincts” of any county through which that road should be constructed, authorized a joint subscription by two precincts, or by one and a fraction of another. A justice’s district, or “magisterial…
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