City of Holly Springs v. Manning & Watson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Marshall County. Hon. R. S. Stith, Special Judge, by agreement. of the parties, Hon. J. W. C. Watson being disqualified.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Marshall County. Hon. R. S. Stith, Special Judge, by agreement. of the parties, Hon. J. W. C. Watson being disqualified. This suit was brought by the defendants in error against the mayor and aldermen of the city of Holly Springs, for $4,000 for services as attorneys, under a special contract, which recited that, “whereas the said city of Holly Springs, through its corporate authorities, issued bonds bearing interest at eight per cent per annum, in payment of $75,000 of the capital stock in the Memphis, Holly Springs, Okalona & Selma Railroad Company, for which…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
Our construction of the contract out of which this suit has grown is that, as a suit had been instituted against the plaintiif in error, which, it was assumed, involved the liability of the city on its subscription, and bonds issued in payment of its subscription, to the amount of $75,000, to the capital stock oi the railroad company named in the contract, therefore, in order to test the question of its liability in that respect, the corporate authorities,of said city employed the counsel named in the contract to defend the suit brought in the United States Court at Oxford, “ and all such…
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