United States v. County of MacOn
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. The United States, on the relation of Alfred Huidekoper, filed, on the eighth day of May, 1875, á petition for a mandamus against the county court of Macon County, Missouri.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. The United States, on the relation of Alfred Huidekoper, filed, on the eighth day of May, 1875, á petition for a mandamus against the county court of Macon County, Missouri. The case exhibited by tbe pleadings is this: the relator, Nov. 25, 1874, recovered in the court below against said county a judgment upon interest coupons detached from bonds issued by it under and by authority of an • act of the General Assembly of said State, entitled “ An Act, to incorporate the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
In United States v. County of Clark (96 U. S. 211)., we decided that bonds issued by counties under sect. 13 of the act to incorporate the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company were debts of the county, and that for any balance remaining due on account of principal or interest after the application of the proceeds of the special tax authorized by that section the holders were entitled to payment out of the general funds of the county. In Loan Company v. Topeka (20 Wall. 660), we also' decided that “it is to be inferred, when the legislature of a State authorizes a county or city to…
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- United States v. County of ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
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