State ex rel. North Missouri Central Railroad v. Linn County Court
Supreme Court of Missouri
Petition for mandamus. I. Bonds issued under the act of March 23, 1868, (Sess. Acts 1868, p. 92,) are not the bonds of the county, but are the bonds of the township; and, although the act requires them to be issued in the name of the county, the township alone is responsible for their payment.
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Petition for mandamus. I. Bonds issued under the act of March 23, 1868, (Sess. Acts 1868, p. 92,) are not the bonds of the county, but are the bonds of the township; and, although the act requires them to be issued in the name of the county, the township alone is responsible for their payment. (Briscoe v. Bank of the Com. of Ky., 11 Pet. 257 ; Hodges v. Runyan, 30 Mo. 491; Tutt v. Hobbs, 17 Mo. 488; .Angelí & Ames on Corp. §§ 276, 278.) There is nothing in the constitution of the State of Missouri which prohibits the General Assembly from authorizing townships to subscribe stock to railroad…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
The relator asks this court to grant a peremptory writ of mandamus against the respondent; and states, substantially, that on the 18th day of May, 1869, at a term of the County Court, in and for the county of Linn, in the State of Missouri, a petition signed by twenty-five (and more) persons, tax payers and residents in the municipal township of Benton, in said county, setting forth their desire, as a township, to subscribe twenty thousand dollars to the capital stock of the North Missouri Central Railroad Company, which road was proposed to be constructed through the said township. The…
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