Bailey v. Lansing
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
[Suits by Manassah Bailey and John L. Stewart against the town of Lansing on interest coupons of certain town bonds.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, District Judge.
The suit by Bailey is brought upon interest coupons originally attached to bonds issued in aid of the Cayuga Lake Railroad Company, by commissioners appointed for that purpose by the county judge of Tompkins county, under the provisions of the bonding acts of 1869, 1879 and 1871, of the state of New York. Laws 1869, p. 2303; Laws 1870, p. 2049; Laws 1871, p. 2115. These acts authorize the county judge, upon the presentation of a petition by the requisite number of the tax-payers of the county, to ascertain, by judicial inquiry, if the majority of the tax-payers, in…
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- Launitz v. DixonThe Superior Court of New York City · 1851
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