City of Lexington v. Butler
Supreme Court of the United States
The 11th section of the Judiciary Act enacts: “The Circuit Court shall have original cognizance of all suits . . . between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State.”
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The 11th section of the Judiciary Act enacts: “The Circuit Court shall have original cognizance of all suits . . . between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State.” It is enacted by the same section : “That no Circuit Court shall have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless such suit may have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents, if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.” The 12th section, however, of the same…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Subscription to the stock of the Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Company was made .by the corporation defendants to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and on the fifteenth of October, 1858, they, as the municipa. corporation of Lexington, issued one hundred and fifty bonds, each for one thousand dollars, sealed with the corpa rate seal and signed by the mayor and clerk of the corpora tion. By the terms of the bonds they are payable to the railroad company or order, at the Bank of America, in thirty years from date, with interest semi-annually at the rate of six per centum…
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