County of Randolph v. Post
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit- Court of tbe United States for tbe Southern District of Illinois. This was an action of assumpsit on certain coupons attached to bonds issued by the county of Randolph, in payment of a subscription- of $100,000 to the capital stock of the Chester and Tamaroa Coal arid Railway Company.
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Error to tbe Circuit- Court of tbe United States for tbe Southern District of Illinois. This was an action of assumpsit on certain coupons attached to bonds issued by the county of Randolph, in payment of a subscription- of $100,000 to the capital stock of the Chester and Tamaroa Coal arid Railway Company. On the 3d of May, 1870, the county court of Randolph County, at a special term thereof, passed an order, which provided that the question of such subscription be submitted to the legal voters of the- county; that until the railroad of the company should be built, and cars run thereon from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
By consent of the parties, this case was tried by the circuit judge without the intervention of a jury. , It resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff below, for the amount of the coupons upon-certain bonds issued by the. county of Randolph and held by the plaintiff, thus establishing the validity of an issrie by said county of' bonds in aid of the Chester and Tamaroa Coal and Railway Company. The eounty, dissatisfied with this 'result, brings its appeal to this court, and rests its objections upon two principal grounds : —.1. The first allegation of error is, that the issue of these bonds was…
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