Cole v. La Grange
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. This was an action to recover the amount of coupons for interest from January 1, 18T3, to January 1, 1880, attached to twenty-five bonds, all exactly alike, except in their serial numbers, and one of which was as follows: “ United States of America: State of Missouri, City of La Grange.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. This was an action to recover the amount of coupons for interest from January 1, 18T3, to January 1, 1880, attached to twenty-five bonds, all exactly alike, except in their serial numbers, and one of which was as follows: “ United States of America: State of Missouri, City of La Grange. No. 23. . $1,000. “Know all men by these presents, that the City of La Grange doth for a good, sufficient and valuable consideration promise to pay to the La Grange Iron and Steel Company or bearer the sum of one thousand…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
He recited the facts as above stated, and continued:
The general grant of legislative power in the Constitution of a State does not enable the legislature, in the exercise either of the right of eminent domain, or of the right of taxation, to ■ take private property, without the owner’s consent, for any but a public object. Nor can the legislature authorize counties, cities or towns to contract, for private objects, debts which must be • paid by taxes. It cannot, therefore, authorize them to issue bonds to assist merchants or manufacturers, whether natural persons or corporations, in their…
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