Legal Opinion
Road Dist. No. 4 of Shelby County v. Home Bank & Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 24, 1925No. 4393PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLAYTON, District Judge.
This is an‘ action by the Home Bank & Trust Company, an Illinois corporation, for the principal amount of certain described bonds and the coupons of other bonds of the same series, issued by the defendant August 11, 1919.
The defense, in -its various aspects, was-that (1) the bonds and coupons were void,, because they were never lawfully delivered by the defendant district or by Shelby county to the plaintiff or its predecessors’in title; (2) invalid, because the bonds and coupons were not sold to the highest bidder for cash, as required by the statute; (3) neither the…
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