Woodruff v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Hinds county, first district. Hon. Warren Cowan, Chancellor. The complainants in this bill, Amos Woodruff, trustee, the German Bank, of Memphis, Tenn., and B. Richmond, are owners and holders of a large number of bonds issued by the levee board of the state of Mississippi, district no. 1. The bonds were issued and negotiated by the said board under the act entitled “ An Act to redeem and protect from overflow from the river Mississippi…
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Appeal from the chancery court of Hinds county, first district. Hon. Warren Cowan, Chancellor. The complainants in this bill, Amos Woodruff, trustee, the German Bank, of Memphis, Tenn., and B. Richmond, are owners and holders of a large number of bonds issued by the levee board of the state of Mississippi, district no. 1. The bonds were issued and negotiated by the said board under the act entitled “ An Act to redeem and protect from overflow from the river Mississippi certain bottom lands herein described,” approved March 17, 1871. (See Acts of 1871, p. 37.) The language of the statute…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell, J.5
delivered the opinion of the court.
When “ An Act to redeem and protect from overflow from the river Mississippi certain bottom lands herein described,” approved March 17,1871, was passed, and when the bonds embraced in this suit were issued, “ gold coin ” was not the basis of the business of the country. It was money, but of much greater value than the circulating medium consisting of U. 8. treasury notes and national bank notes, of which we take judicial-notice, because it is part of the public history known to all the world, and therefore including us. 13 Wallace 358.
All debts…
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