Woods v. Lawrence County
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an action of debt brought in the Circuit;Court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, by Alexander GL Woods,' á /citizen of New York, against the •county of Lawrence, in the State of-.Pennsylvania, to recover the agiount of certain coupons for interest on bonds given by tbe defendant, to the Northwestern Railroad Company.
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This was an action of debt brought in the Circuit;Court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, by Alexander GL Woods,' á /citizen of New York, against the •county of Lawrence, in the State of-.Pennsylvania, to recover the agiount of certain coupons for interest on bonds given by tbe defendant, to the Northwestern Railroad Company. The defendant denied its obligation to pay the coupons or the bonds. . The. plaintiff, to maintain the issue on his part, gave in evidence the.act of the Pennsylvania Legislature by which the Northwestern,Railroad Company was incorporated.…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice 'WAYNE.
This is an action of debt brought upon coupons for interest attached to bonds, which had been passed by the county of Lawrence to the Northwestern Railroad Company, in payment of its subscription for two hundred thousand dollars to the capital stock of that company.
It is here upon a certificate of a division of opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court.
The company was incorporated as the Northwestern Railroad Company on the 9th February, 1853, with the power to build a railroad from some point upon the Pennsylvania or the Alleghany Portage railroad, at or west of…
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