Cole v. City of La Grange
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
Demurrers to the Answers. These are suits upon interest coupons cut from bonds issued as a gift from the city of La Grange, Missouri, to the La Grange Iron & Steel Company, a private corporation, under an act of the legislature of Missouri. The answers set up as defenses, (1) general denials; and (2) that the issue of the bonds was ultra vires, and.contrary to law.
1Opinion of the CourtTreat, J.
These cases rest on the same facts and propositions of law. The purpose is to have the judgment of the court on the special defense set up; yet the demurrer is general, and each answer contains a general denial. That technical point seems to have been overlooked; but as the parties have presented the subject on special defenses, by mutual understanding, the court announces its views with respect thereto. It is not deemed necessary to travel over the ground, theoretical and elemental, on which the many cases cited rest; for the hooks and adjudged 'cases are full of the law-loarning involved. *872Th…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Parkersburg v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- County Court v. GriswoldSupreme Court of Missouri · 1874
- County of Livingston v. DarlingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- State v. Curators State UniversitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1874
- Commercial Nat Bank v. IolaU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kansas · 1873