German Ins. Co. v. City of Manning
U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Iowa
The petition herein avers, as canse of action: That on October 23, 1884, the defendant, a municipal corporation organized under the laws of the state of Iowa, arid under the statutes of ihat state known as a city of the second class, issued its five certain bonds of $1,000 each, a copy of one of said bonds being as follows: “United States of America. “Number 1. $1.000.00 “State of Iowa. City of Manning, Iowa.
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The petition herein avers, as canse of action: That on October 23, 1884, the defendant, a municipal corporation organized under the laws of the state of Iowa, arid under the statutes of ihat state known as a city of the second class, issued its five certain bonds of $1,000 each, a copy of one of said bonds being as follows: “United States of America. “Number 1. $1.000.00 “State of Iowa. City of Manning, Iowa. “The city of Manning, in the county of Carroll, and state of Iowa, for value received, promises to pay Freeport Machine Go., of Freeport, Ills., or order, at the Farmers’ and Traders’…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODSON, District Judge.
Counsel have not pointed the court to any mandatory requirement of statute or otherwise with reference to the manner in which bonds issued by an Iowa city shall be signed. Jn the absence of such mandatory requirement, it would seem that the bonds of a city might be signed by any of the officers of the city whom the city council, as the governing board of the city, should designate therefor. The bonds in suit, as issued by said defendant, recite that “the said city of Manning, Iowa, lias caused this bond to be signed by the treasurer and countersigned by the mayor of…
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