Douglass v. County of Pike
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the .Eastern District of Missouri. This was an action by Joseph M. Douglass on three hundred and twenty-one overdue coupons detached from bonds issued by the county of Pike, Missouri. The bonds are in the following form: —' “ No.-.] State oe Missouri. [$500.00. PIKE COUNTY BOND. “ Issued in payment of Stock of the Pike County Short Pine Railroad Company.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the .Eastern District of Missouri. This was an action by Joseph M. Douglass on three hundred and twenty-one overdue coupons detached from bonds issued by the county of Pike, Missouri. The bonds are in the following form: —' “ No.-.] State oe Missouri. [$500.00. PIKE COUNTY BOND. “ Issued in payment of Stock of the Pike County Short Pine Railroad Company. “ Know all men by these presents, that the county of Pike, in the State of Missouri, acknowledges itself indebted and firmly bound to the Pike County Short Line Railroad Company in the sum…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
We are asked to reconsider our decision in County of Cass v. Johnston (95 U. S. 860), because since that case the Supreme Court of Missouri-, in State, ex rel. Woodson, v. Brassfield (67 Mo. 331), and Webb v. La Fayette County (id. 353), has held the Township Aid Act, which we sustained, to be unconstitutional. The question presented, ás we view it, is not so much whether these late decisions are right, as whether they should be followed in cases having reference to bonds put out and in the hands of innocent purchasers when they were announced. In the Cass County case we said that the Supreme…
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