City of Gladstone v. Throop
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the United States Circuit Court of the Western District of Michigan. This was an action by Benjamin H. Throop against the city of Gladstone to recover the principal and interest on five bonds, each of which was of the form following: “United States of America, State of Michigan, Village of Gladstone.
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In Error to the United States Circuit Court of the Western District of Michigan. This was an action by Benjamin H. Throop against the city of Gladstone to recover the principal and interest on five bonds, each of which was of the form following: “United States of America, State of Michigan, Village of Gladstone. “No. $2,000.00. “One year after date, for value received, the village of Gladstone promises to pay to Exchange Bank, Gladstone, or bearer hereof, the sum of two thousand dollars, in lawful money of the United States, at the office of the village treasurer of the said village, with…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). It is first necessary to determine which of the statutes of Michigan conferred and prescribed the powers of the village of Gladstone when the bonds here in question were issued. In 1857 the legislature of the state enacted a general law. providing for the organization and incorporation of villages by county boards of supervisors. This law was amended in 1859, in 1863, and in 1869, and as thus amended was incorporated in the Compiled Laws, and in Howell’s Annotated Statutes as chapter 82. It was under this chapter that the village of *345Gladstone was incorporated in…
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