Hoff v. Jasper County
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COUET OB ' THE UNITED ■ STATES FOft THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. Suit to recover on coupons on bonds issued by a county in payment of subscription to stock of a railroad company by a township within the county.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COUET OB ' THE UNITED ■ STATES FOft THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. Suit to recover on coupons on bonds issued by a county in payment of subscription to stock of a railroad company by a township within the county. The facts were in all respects the samé as those in Anthony v. Gownty of Jasper, 101 U. S. 693, except that here it was expressly found that the subscription of the'township which was voted had actually been made by the County Court and accepted by the railroad company before the act providing for the registration of boiids was approved, while there the…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief Justice "WAite
delivered the opinion of the court.
Upon the additional fact found in this case it is insisted:
1. That if the registration act was applicable to the bonds now in question, it impaired the obligation of the contract of subscription, and is therefore, so far as such application is concerned, • in contravention of art. I., sec. 10, clause 1, of the Constitution of the United States; and,
2. That it was retrospective in its operation, and therefore in contravention .of art. I., sec. 28,'of the Constitution of Missouri, which is:
“That no ex post faeto law, nor law impairing…
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