Township of Burlington v. Beasley
Supreme Court of the United States
In error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. This was a suit brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas, by Alfred W. Beasley, against the township of Burlington, in' the county of Coffey, and State of Kansas, to recover the amount due upon sixty-four coupons, each for the sum of twenty-five dollars, together with interest thereon.
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In error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. This was a suit brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas, by Alfred W. Beasley, against the township of Burlington, in' the county of Coffey, and State of Kansas, to recover the amount due upon sixty-four coupons, each for the sum of twenty-five dollars, together with interest thereon. Of these coupons, as well as of the bonds to which they had been originally attached, the said Beasley averred himself to have become the true and lawful owner and holder for value before maturity,…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justices Hunt
delivered the opinion of the court.
The bonds which are the foundation of this action purport upon their face to be issued by virtue of an act of the legislature of .the State of Kansas, approved March 2, 1872, of which the title is given in the bonds. They contain no specific statement .of the purpose for which they were issued. There is nothing upon their- face to indicate fraud, unlawful assumption of authority, or irregularity. If there was, in fact and in law, authority in the town under any circumstances to issue its bonds, and if these bonds bear the impress of such…
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