Post v. Supervisors
Supreme Court of the United States
Error, to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. The facts are stated in the opinion of-the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
These actions are brought upon municipal bonds, purporting to have been issued under an act of the General Assembly of Illinois of Feb. 18, 1857. The facts of the cases do not substantially differ from those which appeared when one of the cases was before this court,at October Term, 1876, and the principles then affirmed must control the present decision. See Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins and Supervisors of Kendall County v. Post, 94 U. S. 260. Those principles may be summed up as follows: —
First, By the law of the State of Illinois, as often declared by the Supreme Court of that State,…
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