Norton v. Board of Comm'rs of Taxing Dist. of Brownsville
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT. OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The case as stated by tbe court was as follows: Plaintiff in error brought suit in the Circuit Court of the United States for the “Western District of Tennessee against the Board of Commissioners of the Taxing District of the City of Brownsville, Tennessee, and the president, treasurer, secretary and financial agent of that board, upon certain interest coupons annexed to bonds issued by…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT. OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The case as stated by tbe court was as follows: Plaintiff in error brought suit in the Circuit Court of the United States for the “Western District of Tennessee against the Board of Commissioners of the Taxing District of the City of Brownsville, Tennessee, and the president, treasurer, secretary and financial agent of that board, upon certain interest coupons annexed to bonds issued by the city of Brownsville, July 1, 1870. The cause was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, as follows: The city of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
The question to be determined in this case is whether the act of February 8, 1870, set forth in the foregoing statement, could be availed of under the provisions of the constitution of Tennessee, which was adopted by vote of the people March 26, 1870, and went into-effect on the 5th day of May of that year.
By that act the corporate authorities' of the city of Brownsville, in Haywood County, Tennessee, were authorized to issue corporate bonds to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars for railroad purposes, to be subscribed as stock in the Brownsville and Ohio. Bailroad Company,…
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