Lytle v. Lansing
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT. OF NEW YORK. This was an appeal from a decree requiring the appellant to surrender for cancellation seventy-five bonds of one thousand dollars’ each, purporting to have been executed by the town of Lansing, and dismissing a cross-bill filed by Lytle to compel the payment of the overdue coupons attached to such bonds.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT. OF NEW YORK. This was an appeal from a decree requiring the appellant to surrender for cancellation seventy-five bonds of one thousand dollars’ each, purporting to have been executed by the town of Lansing, and dismissing a cross-bill filed by Lytle to compel the payment of the overdue coupons attached to such bonds. By an act of the legislature of New York, passed in 1869, Laws of 1869* 2203, c. 907, it was provided that whenever a majority of the taxpayers of any municipal corporation, owning or representing a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
'1As the bonds in this case, though good upon their face, were undoubtedly void as between the railroad company and the town of Lansing, it is incumbent upon the defendant Lytle to show that he, or some one through whom he obtained title to them, was a Iona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration. Orleans v. Platt, 99 U. S. 676.
The judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, holding these bonds to be invalid, must be respected by this court, not only because it passed upon the validity of acts done in alleged pursuance of a statute, but because in a collateral proceeding of…
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