Pendleton County v. Amy
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky. Amy brought suit in April, 18G9, against the county of Pendleton, in Kentucky, to recover the aggregate amount of certain coupons or interest warrants attached to fifty bonds of $1000 each. The bonds were dated October 15th, 1858, payable thirty years after date, and were alleged in •the declaration to have been made and issued by the county of Pendleton in virtue of authority conferred by the legislature of the State.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky. Amy brought suit in April, 18G9, against the county of Pendleton, in Kentucky, to recover the aggregate amount of certain coupons or interest warrants attached to fifty bonds of $1000 each. The bonds were dated October 15th, 1858, payable thirty years after date, and were alleged in •the declaration to have been made and issued by the county of Pendleton in virtue of authority conferred by the legislature of the State. The declaration averred the execution of the bonds with interest warrants attached to each, payable to the bearer…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
It must be admitted that the pleas interposed by the defendant in the court below were in artistically framed; that they'were argumentative, and that they set up nothing which could not have been taken advantage of, for what it was worth, under the general issue. They might have been stricken from the record on motion, or, if special demurrers were allowable in that circuit, they would have been condemned, had the plaintiff so demurred. But the demurrers were general, and the question before us is whether any of the pleas set up a substantial defence to the action.
Now, in regard to the first…
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