Brooklyn v. Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United” States for the Northern District of Illinois. This action was brought by the iEtna Life Insurance Company, a corporation of the State of Connecticut, against the town of Brooklyn, in the State of Illinois, upon certain interest coupons detached from bonds issued in the name of that town. Besides the general issue, the defendant filed four special pleas.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United” States for the Northern District of Illinois. This action was brought by the iEtna Life Insurance Company, a corporation of the State of Connecticut, against the town of Brooklyn, in the State of Illinois, upon certain interest coupons detached from bonds issued in the name of that town. Besides the general issue, the defendant filed four special pleas. The second plea, in substance, avers that the coupons in suit and the bonds to which they were attached were issued and delivered by the supervisor and town clerk of the town for stock claimed to have…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
The questions presented for consideration upon this "writ of error seem to have been concluded by the former decisions of this court.
The facts set out in the second plea do not constitute a defence to this action/ It is not averred in that plea that the insurance company had, at the time it purchased the coupons in suit, any knowledge or actual notice of the special conditions embodied in the election notice, and repeated in the formal subscription' of May 23, 1870. Nor is it therein alleged that the bonds to which these coupons were originally attached contained recitals indicating that the…
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