Hill v. City of Kahoka
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
At Law. Action upon certain railroad aid bonds issued by the town of Kaboka. The town was incorporated under the act of February 8, 1871, (2 Wag.
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At Law. Action upon certain railroad aid bonds issued by the town of Kaboka. The town was incorporated under the act of February 8, 1871, (2 Wag. St. Mo. p. 1314,) the first section of which, in part, is as follows: “Whenever two-thirds of the inhabitants of any town or village within this state shall present a petition to the county court of the county, setting forth the metes and bounds of their village and commons, and praying that they may be incorporated, and a police established for their local government, and for the preservation and regulation of any commons appertaining to such town…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
This is an action on coupons of certain bonds issued by the town of Kahoka on January 1, 1873. The petition also contains a count upon a judgment against the town recovered April 10, 1877, on other coupons of the same bonds. The town of Kahoka was incorporated by two orders or decrees of the county court of Clark county, Mo., made and entered of record respectively on June 8, 1869, and November 14, 1872, pursuant to chapter 134, Wagner’s Revised Statutes of Missouri. Thereafter, both before and long subsequent to the execution of the bonds in suit, the town assumed the exercise of corporate…
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