Clapp v. County of Cedar
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Johnson District Court. The County Judge of Cedar county, on the 1st of June, 1853, issued twenty bonds, for the payment of one thousand dollars each, of one of which the following is a copy: “UNITED STATES OE AMEBICA. “ State oe Iowa. $1000. “No. 4. County of Cedar. . “ Six per cent, loan, for subscription to the capital stock of the Lyons Iowa Central railroad company.
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Appeal from the Johnson District Court. The County Judge of Cedar county, on the 1st of June, 1853, issued twenty bonds, for the payment of one thousand dollars each, of one of which the following is a copy: “UNITED STATES OE AMEBICA. “ State oe Iowa. $1000. “No. 4. County of Cedar. . “ Six per cent, loan, for subscription to the capital stock of the Lyons Iowa Central railroad company. “ Be it known, that the county of Cedar, in the State of Iowa, owes to the Lyons Iowa Central railroad company, one thousand dollars, which sum the Judge of the County Court of said county, having been duly…
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.*
The questions which, arise in this cause, are numerous, interesting and important, but it will be necessary to express the opinion of the. Court upon them, as briefly as possible. The first question is presented under the demurrer of the defendant to the plaintiffs petition and is whether the District Corn! has original jurisdiction of the cause. This point was decided in the case of Campbell v. County of Polk, 3 Iowa, 167, as well as in Steele v. Davis County, 2 G. Greene, 169. In the first named of the aboye cases, this corn! sustained an action brought upon a warrant issued by…
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