Kelley v. Milan
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. . This was au action at law, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee, by Albert Kelley and Lawrence D. Alexander, co-partners under the firm naine of Kelley & Alexander, citizens of New York, against the mayór and aldermen of Milan, a municipal corporation organized under the laws -of Tennessee, to recover the sum of $5040, being the amount…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. . This was au action at law, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee, by Albert Kelley and Lawrence D. Alexander, co-partners under the firm naine of Kelley & Alexander, citizens of New York, against the mayór and aldermen of Milan, a municipal corporation organized under the laws -of Tennessee, to recover the sum of $5040, being the amount of 144 coupons, for $35 each, cut from twelve bonds purporting to have been issued by the defendant, bearing date July 1,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatcheord
Two questions arise for consideration in this case, (1) as to the statutory authority for the issue of the bonds; (2) as'to the effect of the decree of January 9, 1875, in the suit in the state court of Chancery.
The bonds in question were issued in payment of a subscription made by the town to the stock of the Mississippi Central Railroad Company. On their face, they do not recite any such subscription to stock, but recite, as the consideration for the bonds, the “location of the Mississippi Central railroad by said town.” .It is well settled, that a municipal corporation, in order to…
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