Forest v. St. Francis Levee Dist.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
This was an action upon a contract, and was brought by William M. Forest and Patrick McCadden, trading under the firm name and style of Forest & Co., against the St. Francis Levee District of Missouri, a corporation. The case was heard on demurrer to the amended complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIPS, District Judge.
This cause has been submitted upon demurrer to the amended petition. The action is predicated of a contract alleged to have been made between the plaintiffs and the defendant. The defendant is a corporation created by special act of the legislature of the state of Missouri. Laws Mo. 1893, p. 200. The controversy involves the authority of the board of directors to make the contract sued on. Generally stated, said act formed into a. levee district a certain area of the state, known as a part of the St. Francis Basin, in the counties of Dunklin, New Madrid, and Pemiscot,…
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