Wurth v. City of Paducah
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 87 — Action by August Wukth against the City of Paducah to Recover on Five City Bonds and Coupons Attached. APPEAL FROM M’CRACKEN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals.
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Case 87 — Action by August Wukth against the City of Paducah to Recover on Five City Bonds and Coupons Attached. APPEAL FROM M’CRACKEN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals. This suit was brought on five bonds of the city) of Paducah with coupons attached, dated November 13, 1868, and due at any time after January 1, 1873. The suit was filed April 11, 1900. The defendant in its answer pleads (first) forgery amdl (second) limitation. 1. The reply denies forgery and denies limitation and all the affirmative allegations of the answer. 2. The second paragraph of the reply…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
CHIEF JUSTICE BURNAM
Affirming.
The appellant, August Wurth, brought this suit against the city of Paducah to recover on five bonds of tbe city, and the coupons attached thereto, which he alleged were issued on the 13th day of November, 1868. The following is a specimen of each of the bonds, with the difference that they do not mature on the same day, but each of them had matured more than seventeen years before the institution, of this suit: .
*406Bond No. 16.
“No. 16. The United States of America.
“$1,000.00. State of Kentucky. $1,000.00.
“New Orleans and Ohio Railroad Company.
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