City v. Lamson
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Wisconsin, the case being thus: The 3d section of the 11th article of the Constitution of Wisconsin ordains that “It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in contracting debts by such municipal corporations.”
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Wisconsin, the case being thus: The 3d section of the 11th article of the Constitution of Wisconsin ordains that “It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in contracting debts by such municipal corporations.” With this provision in force as fundamental law, the legislature of the State, on the 2d March, 1857, by an act* which amended and consolidated the several…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
We agree that if this were an action upon the bonds to recover instalments of interest that had accrued thereon, although such instalments had been duly assigned to the plaintiff, there would be great difficulty in maintaining ij; in his name, as well as without producing the bonds, as the proper evidence that interest was due. The plaintiff', under such circumstances, doubtless, would have a remedy for withholding the interest; but it is not necessary or material to stop and point it out in the present case; for we do not regard the action as founded upon the bonds, but upon the coupons. The…
2Cited by56 opinions
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