Quinlan v. Green County
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. Plaintiff in error brought an action in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky upon certain bonds and coupons purporting to have been issued by the defendant in error, one of thé counties of the State of Kentucky. The following was the form of the bond: “United States of America, “County of Green, State of Kentucky. “$500.00 “For the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad.
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. Plaintiff in error brought an action in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky upon certain bonds and coupons purporting to have been issued by the defendant in error, one of thé counties of the State of Kentucky. The following was the form of the bond: “United States of America, “County of Green, State of Kentucky. “$500.00 “For the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad. “Twenty years after date, the county of Green, in the State of Kentucky, will pay to the holder-of this bond the sum of five…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moody
The first question certified is thought by a majority of the court to contain more than a single question or proposition of law, and for that reason it is not answered.
The second question deals with the exoneration from subscription to the stock of the Elizabethtown and Tennessee Railroad Company which was made by the vote of the county a condition to the issue of the bonds, and we confine our consideration to that question and the facts relevant to it.
There is no doubt of the power of the defendant to issue the bonds. The legislature of Kentucky gave it in plain terms, upon the condition…
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