Martinton v. Fairbanks
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE ' THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. This suit was brought by the defendant in error, as plaintiff below, to recover of the plaintiff in error, a municipal corporation, the amount of certain coupons on bonds issued in payment of a subscription to stock in a railroad corporation. The casewas tried before the judge without the intervention of a jury.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE ' THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. This suit was brought by the defendant in error, as plaintiff below, to recover of the plaintiff in error, a municipal corporation, the amount of certain coupons on bonds issued in payment of a subscription to stock in a railroad corporation. The casewas tried before the judge without the intervention of a jury. There was a general finding of facts and a judgment for the 'plaintiff below, and a general bill of exceptions by the defendant, which incorporated all the evidence. The defendant sued out this…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woods
Two actions of assumpsit were brought by Fairbanks, the defendant in error, against the town of Martinton, the plaintiff in error. One action was brought upon what the declaration alleges to be “ certain instruments in writing called promissory notes or bonds or railroad bonds” made and issued by the town. They were not under seal and were payable to bearer. The other was based on the coupons or interest warrants, also not under seal, -which had belonged to and had been detached from the said bonds. The declaration in both cases was in the form used in the action of assumpsit. The plea in…
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