Quinlan v. Green County
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky. This is ah action brought by the plaintiff in error to recover the contents of certain bonds and coupons alleged to have been issued by the defendant in error in 1872, in payment, with other like bonds, for shares of stock of the Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company. The plaintiff claims to be the holder for value and owner of the bonds and coupons which are the subject of the controversy.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky. This is ah action brought by the plaintiff in error to recover the contents of certain bonds and coupons alleged to have been issued by the defendant in error in 1872, in payment, with other like bonds, for shares of stock of the Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company. The plaintiff claims to be the holder for value and owner of the bonds and coupons which are the subject of the controversy. By stipulation, the ease was tried by the court without a jury. The'court made a-finding of facts, and declared its…
1DissentLurton, Circuit Judge
I must in this case, and contrary to the usual practice of this court, express openly the grounds for my dissent to the conclusions reached in this case.
The county has not obtained a road constructed by the company to whose stock it proposed to subscribe. Its money has been thrown away. This suit involves its probable liability upon an issue of bonds aggregating $250,000. This series of bonds with interest already past due, aggregate three-fourths of a million. Tor this the county will obtain nothing. To prevent just such a possible result the Legislature provided that subscriptions by…
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