Knapp v. Mayor of Hoboken

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scudder, J.

This action is in debt upon three several ■sc improvement certificates” — two for $2500 each, and one for 85000. They were issued, under the seal of the city of Hobo-ken, attested by the mayor and city clerk, to Coughlin & Callahan, for work and material on Thirteenth street. They are dated February 25th, 1871, and were transferred by endorsement to Theophilus Butts, and by him assigned, in writing, to the Bowling Green Savings Bank of the city of Kew York. Upon proceedings in the Supreme Court of the *372State of New York for the appointment of…