Searcy County v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. This was an action by W. H. Thompson against Searcy county, Ark., to recover upon certain county warrants.
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, Circuit Judge.
This case was before this court on a previous occasion, and is reported in 12 U. S. App. 618, 6 C. C. A. 674, and 57 Fed. 1030. After the case was remanded by this court for a new trial, Searcy county, the plaintiff in error, filed an amended answer, wherein it alleged, in substance, that the warrants sued upon were issued in pursuance of a fraudulent and unlawful agreement between the county and McCabe & G-reenhaw, who were the contractors for building a courthouse for the county, whereby the price for doing the work was fixed at a sum known to be three times in excess…
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