Ransom v. City of Pierre
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Dakota. This case is before this court for decision upon the following facts and circumstances: The action is founded upon 500 coupons clipped from 100 bonds which were issued by the city of Pierre, S. D., on October 1, 1891, to refund its then outstanding indebtedness.
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In Error to tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Dakota. This case is before this court for decision upon the following facts and circumstances: The action is founded upon 500 coupons clipped from 100 bonds which were issued by the city of Pierre, S. D., on October 1, 1891, to refund its then outstanding indebtedness. One hundred of the coupons in suit matured October 1, 1895, and an equal number of the remainder on April 1, 1896, October 1, 1896, April 1, 1897, and October 1, 1897, respectively. On September 28, 1896, James J. Ransom, the plaintiff in error, who…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge
This cause having been decided below in favor of the defendant city on the ground that the judgment of the circuit court for the Sixth judicial circuit of the state of South Dakota in the mandamus suit brought by James J. Ransom, the present plaintiff in error, against Corwin D. Mead, the city treasurer of the city of Pierre, conclusively established that the coupons in suit were issued without authority of law, and were, therefore, void, the principal question that was discussed on the argument was whether the judgment of the state court in the mandamus suit could be pleaded and received in…
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