Legal Opinion
Kurn v. Beasley
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 15, 1940No. 11573PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of the district court dismissing the appellants’ complaint on the grounds that the requisite jurisdictional amount is not involved and that the complaint fails to state a cause of action.
The appellants, citizens and residents of Missouri, operate railway lines through Benton County, Arkansas. The substance of the allegations of their complaint is that in 1938 the County Judge of Benton County *688made certain orders authorizing an issue and sale of county funding bonds under the guise of the authority of Amendment No. 10 of the Constitution of…
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