Commissioners of Douglas County v. Bolles
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. This was an action by Matthew Bolles and M. Shepard Bolles against the board of county commissioners of the county of Douglas, Kansas, upon sundry coupons attached to certain bonds issued by the county. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. This was an action by Matthew Bolles and M. Shepard Bolles against the board of county commissioners of the county of Douglas, Kansas, upon sundry coupons attached to certain bonds issued by the county. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The following questions of law arose, upon which the judges of the court below were divided in opinion: — 1. Whether, as respects the bonds dated July 1, 1869, and the coupons in suit originally attached to said bonds, there was authority and power in the board of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
delivered tbe opinion of tim court.
Whether tbe St. Louis, Lawrence, and Denver Railroad Company was lawfully a corporation, capable of contracting with tbe defendants below, is a question that cannot be raised in this case. Tbe findings of tbe Circuit. Court establish that a majority of the persons named, as corporators in tbe certificate filed in tbe office of the secretary of state on tbe eleventh day of May, 1868, published a notice that books would be opened on a designated day for subscriptions to tbe stock of tbe company. Tbe books were accordingly opened, subscriptions to tbe capital…
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