Oregon v. Jennings
Supreme Court of the United States
EREOE TO THE CIEOUIT COTTET OE THE UNITED STATES EOE THE NOETHERN DISTRICT OE ILLINOIS. This was an action at law brought in the Circuit Court of' the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, by Eliza Jennings, against'the town of Oregon, a municipal corporation' in the county of Ogle, and State of Illinois, to recover $13,5Í0, the amount payable by 193 coupons of $70 each* cut from 24 bonds for $1000 each, purporting to have been issued by that town.
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EREOE TO THE CIEOUIT COTTET OE THE UNITED STATES EOE THE NOETHERN DISTRICT OE ILLINOIS. This was an action at law brought in the Circuit Court of' the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, by Eliza Jennings, against'the town of Oregon, a municipal corporation' in the county of Ogle, and State of Illinois, to recover $13,5Í0, the amount payable by 193 coupons of $70 each* cut from 24 bonds for $1000 each, purporting to have been issued by that town. The following is a copy of one of the bonds, all "being alike except as to the number, and the time when due: “UNITED States oe…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Blatoheoed,
after stating tbe facts as above reported, debvered tbe opinion of tbe court.
Tbe court refused to submit to tbe jury, and we tbink properly, any question as to whether tbe making or execution of tbe bonds and , coupons was obtained by fraud or circumvention.
Even if tbe statute applies to town bonds and their coupons, no fraud or imposition was practised on Potter or Marsh to induce them to sign these bonds and coupons. They knew what they were signing and signed intentionally. Tbe fraud or cbcumvention intended by tbe statute, which only embodies a rule of tbe common…
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